{"id":9407,"date":"2017-04-24T20:53:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T15:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=9407"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:53:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T15:23:13","slug":"release-pro-freedom-leaders-activists-geelani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=9407","title":{"rendered":"Release \u201cpro-freedom\u201d leaders and activists: Geelani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Srinagar:<\/strong> Joint resistance camp chairman, Syed Ali Geelani has demanded immediate release of \u201cpro-freedom\u201d leaders and activists while saying that \u201chundreds of innocent youth detained under frivolous cases are languishing in jails and police stations across the valley and most of them are detained under infamous Public Safety Act.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In a statement issued, Geelani blamed administration for \u201cpushing youth to wall,\u201d and called it \u201cextreme vandalism and bullying.\u201d He said that denying political space, choking genuine voices and continuous crackdown against pro- freedom leaders and activists is deliberate act to disrupt situation and create uncertainty in state.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>While referring to continuous detention of Masarat Aalam Bhat, and other leaders and activists he said, detainees arrested during people\u2019s uprising are lodged in different jails and interrogation centers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cDetainees lodged in different JK jails are living miserable life and \u00a0are subjected to vengeance and are harassed on one pretext or the other,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We are receiving disturbing reports from different jails and jail staff in Jammu, Kathua and Udhampur is very harsh towards prisoners,\u201d he stated. \u201cIt is a jail within a jail and mostly the detainees remain in lock up in their jail barks.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Geelani urged International Red Cross and Amnesty international to take note of \u201cpathetic condition of political detainees and impress upon India to shun its callous attitude towards detainees and provide them with basic necessities as per jail manual.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: Joint resistance camp chairman, Syed Ali Geelani has demanded immediate release of \u201cpro-freedom\u201d leaders and activists while saying that \u201chundreds of innocent youth detained under frivolous cases are languishing in jails and police stations across the valley and most of them are detained under infamous Public Safety Act.\u201d In a statement issued, Geelani blamed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}