Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) on Sunday said that its incarcerated chairman, Muhammad Yasin Malik was today shifted to Srinagar’s central jail from JIC Hhumhama.The spokesman in a statement issued to KNS said that Malik who is ailing from a long time was kept in solitary confinement for a long time and because of this torturous confinement his health deteriorated considerably“Doctors many times advised the authorities to take care of his ill health but till today he was kept in a cell at JIC,” the spokesman said.JKLF while condemning the ‘illegal and undemocratic confinement’ of Yasin has termed the “ongoing oppression in Jammu Kashmir as worst phase of state sponsored violence” that Kashmiris have seen from last many decades. JKLF also condemned the prolonged incarceration of its leaders and activists including vice chairman Advocate Bashir Ahmad Butt, Vice chairman Showkat Ahmad Bakhshi, Zonal president Noor Muhammad Kalwal, senior vice president Kashmir zone Muhammad Yasin Butt, JKLF Zonal organizer Bashir Ahmad Kashmiri, district president Ganderbal Bashir Ahmad Rather (Boya), senior members Fayaz Ahmad Mir from Ganderbal, Shabir Ahmad Ganaie of Kakapora Pulwama, Mushtaq Ahmad Mir of Kupwara , Assadullah Sheikh of Kulagam ,Muhammad Ishaaq Malik Kokernagh and many others.
JKLF also condemned the continuous arrest and house arrest of APHC leaders including APHC (G) chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani, APHC (M) chairman Mirwaiz Muhammad Umer Farooq, Dukhtaran I Millat chief Aasiya Andrabi, Hurriyat leaders Shabir Ahmad Shah, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai, Bilal Ahmad Sideequi, Muhammad Altaf shah, Ghulam Nabi Zaki, Zafar Akbar Butt, Ayaz Akbar, Doctor G M Hubbi , Hakeem Abdul Rashid and Advocate Muhammad Shafi Reshi and many others who are either languishing in jails or detained at their residences by occupational forces.JKLF also strongly condemned the arrest of and various Ulema and religious scholars especially from south Kashmir and said that these kind of harsh oppressive methods of India and its Kashmiri stooges will never succeed in defeating the valor, passion and will of the people of Jammu Kashmir who are striving against illegal occupation peacefully. (KNS)