Kashmir ‘rage
boy’s’ release sought
A Kashmir youth, who was dubbed as Islamic Rage Boy’
particularly by bloggers from western countries, has been languishing in jail
from the past five years, his family said on Wednesday while seeking his
release.
Shakeel Ahmed Bhat, a
resident of Malik Angan Fateh Kadal, in Jammu and Kashmir’s summer capital
Srinagar, was arrested by the government in 2009 on the charges of organizing
protests against police, and since then he is languishing in the jail.
“He has been slapped
with PSA for the twelfth time despite the fact the he never resorted to
violence or stone-pelting,” the family says.
The PSA has been described as a ‘lawless law’ by human rights
watchdog Amnesty International and allows detention without trial for up to two
years.
They criticized
authorities for framing charges and slapping of PSA against Shakeel and added
‘authorities in their political retribution and while ignoring all constitutional
rights are subjecting the Shakeel to worst kind of state terrorism’.
They said from 1994, Shakeel remained in custody for most of
the time. “An injury to his right arm as a result of the torture had left him
unable to lift anything and authorities take him as a threat,” they said and
appealed the authorities to release him.
Described as the ‘Islamic Rage Boy’ by Wikipedia Shakeel
family said ‘atrocities done on them converted him into the present avatar of a
‘Rage Boy’.
Shakeel’s brother Ghulam Nabi Bhat says that he became a
school dropout because he had problems to comprehend his studies and to read
and write and in 1990’s, during a raid on his home, the armed forces threw his
sister Shareefa out of a window tearing off her spine and consequently
resulting in her death after being in a near vegetative state for four 4 years.
المشاركات
0 التعليقات:
إرسال تعليق