The All Parties Hurriyat Conference has urged the United Nations Human Rights Council and other international human rights organizations to take cognizance of the plight of the Kashmiri detainees in Indian jails.

In a statement in Srinagar, the spokesman of APHC deplored that the detainees, including APHC Chairman Masarat Aalam Butt, Shabbir Ahmad Shah, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Aasiya Andrabi and Nayeem Ahmed Khan are languishing in jails across India without legal rights.

According to Kashmir Media Service report, more than four thousands illegally detained Hurriyat leaders, activists and Kashmiri youth are facing hell-like situations in Indian jails with many without a trial despite spending years in illegal custody.

The report said the discriminatory treatment being meted out to the Kashmiri detainees is well explained in one of the rulings of the High Court of occupied Jammu and Kashmir.  

The report said the situation turned even the worst in the post-August 2019 scenario when New Delhi stripped Kashmir of its special status and arrested Kashmiris in thousands and shifted them to far-off jails in India.

A retired Indian judge, Justice Madan B. Lokur is on record to have said that Indian prisons are hopelessly overcrowded and prisoners live in subhuman conditions in jails.

Meanwhile, India has started arming Hindutva-inspired women as Village Defence Guards against Muslim population in Hindu-dominated areas of Jammu region.

Initially a group of 250 is being trained in Doda district.

Presently there are more than 6,000 VDG members, recruited on the pattern of the erstwhile Village Defense Committee members which killed hundreds of Muslims in the border areas of the occupied territory.