Kashmiri prisoners re-arrested under public safety act
Pakistan Times Kashmir Desk

SRINAGAR (Indian held-Kashmir): Scores of Kashmiris illegally arrested under the draconian Public Safety Act (PSA) have been re-arrested several times after the expiry of their jail terms and many amongst them are languishing in prisons for the last more than ten years.

A number of detainees had served their jail terms months ago but they have not been released despite court orders for their acquittal. Koka Paswal of Shopian, Raja Asghar of Uri and Mohammad Yasin of Kupwara have been behind the bars for the last one decade. They were re-arrested under Public Safety Act as soon as the court ordered their release.

The relatives of these un-fortunate persons say that the detenues were not being produced before the courts on due dates nor are they provided with necessary medical care. Consequently their health has deteriorated to dangerous level and they have already contacted serious kind of ailments owing to lack of proper food and medicare.

It is pertinent to mention that puppet interior minister of occupied Kashmir Abdul Rehman Viery had recently announced on the floor of he so-called Assembly that no person arrested under Safety Act will be detained for more than two years.●