The Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) has said that its illegally detained Chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik has been on hunger strike in Tihar Jail since March 4 against Indian judicial terrorism and the callous attitude of the Indian judiciary.

The JKLF Chief Spokesman, Muhammad Rafiq Dar, flanked byparty leaders including Saleem Haroon, Sajid Siddiqui and Khawaja Manzoor Ahmed Chishti addressing a press conference in Islamabad, today, expressed concern over the already deteriorated health of Muhammad Yasin Malik. He said that Modi-led Indian government was victimizing him on the basis of political vendetta and deliberately endangering his life. He demanded immediate and unconditional release of all illegally detained Hurriyat leaders includingYasin Malik.

Questioning the Indian judicial system, the JKLF leader saidthat even after observing the pathetic health condition of Yasin Malik due tohunger strike, the TADA court judge in Jammu on the behest of Indian governmenthas accelerated the hearings of the cases against Yasin Malik and his colleaguesfrom weekly to daily basis.

Rafiq Dar said that Yasin Mlik’s solitary confinement atDelhi’s Tihar jail is violation of basic human rights. He said the registrationof new concocted cases against him by Indian National Investigation Agency(NIA), re-opening and speedy trial of more than three decades old cases inJammu instead of Kashmir, the use of video link during court hearings anddelinking or muting the video in the course of hearing with an aim to depriveYasin Malik of presenting his viewpoint are some of the examples of India’scallous attitude towards the Kashmiri leadership. He said that Showkat Bakhshiwas facing the same treatment at Ambedkar Nagar jail in India.

He said on March 10 Tihar Jail Superintendent informed thesaid judge that Yasin Malik is not in a position to be produced before thecourt because of his continued hunger strike since 4th March, but the judgeordered the superintendent of jail to produce him before the court on videolink the next day.

On 11th of March, he said, Yasin Malik, unmoved on astretcher or bed with a drip in his arm vein and a doctor standing nearby wasproduced and what came to surprise everybody was that the hearing was adjournedfor next day. This clearly indicated that the said judge behaved more like apolice officer or a BJP party worker than a judge, the leader added.

The JKLF leader said that hanging of Muhammad Maqbool Buttand Muhammad Afzal Guru and life imprisonment till death of near about threedozen Kashmiris and, pre and post 5th August aggression arrests and shifting oftop resistance men and women leaders including thousands of youth to the Indianjails had established the fact that pro-freedom people especially the youthhave been the victim of Indian judicial terrorism.