Srinagar: Muslim League Jammu and Kashmir spokesman, Sajad Ayoubi while condemning shifting of prisoners to outside jails and the treatment meted to the prisoners on Thursday said that it’s open violation of agreements made in Geneva convention 1929.
Muslim League in a statement issued to KNO expressed deep anguish and concern over the ‘worsening’ health condition of prisoners, saying “they are being ill-treated and subjected to mental and physical torture in jails.”
“This is a gross violation of national and international laws which compel every country to abide by these rules and regulations to ensure the safety of every individual under custody,” he said.
He also said that there is no permanent posting of doctors inside the jails nor the minimum requirement of basic dispensary is available. “It is sheer political vendetta that detainees in outside jail are ill-treated,” he said.
He said these detainees in jails are political prisoners qualifying for more human and civilized behaviour from their captives, “but India very brazenly and cunningly subjects them to inhuman treatment.”
Ayoubi said that “different articles of Geneva Convention 1929, covering the provisions like Medical facilities, religious needs, better treatment etc are completely ignored and violated. Authorities tarnish the image and stature of its own judiciary particularly of the international laws by not respecting them.”(KNO)
