Renowned female Kashmiri leader Asiya Andrabi shifted to Tihar jail

Renowned female Kashmiri leader Asiya Andrabi shifted to Tihar jail Punishment Ward in New Delhi.

In Indian occupied Kashmir, the family of illegally detained Chairperson of Dukhtaran-e-Millat, Aasiya Andrabi shared this news.

Renowned female Kashmiri leader Asiya Andrabi shifted to Tihar jail

They said that Indian authorities shifted her and her two associates, Naheeda Nasreen and Fehmeeda Sofi, to Punishment Ward of Tihar jail.

According to Kashmir Media Service, Aasiya Andrabi’s younger son, Ahmed Bin Qasim, also wrote on twitter.

He tweeted: “I woke up to the news that mother and her two aides have been shifted to “Punishment Ward”. The condition of this ward is terrible and the routine is extremely stringent.”

“Mother is almost 60 now. Her aide, Nahida Nasreen, is 54 and battling multiple illnesses. Fehmeeda Sofi is 32 but bedridden. All of them have families,” Ahmed tweeted.

Aasiya Andrabi and her two associates were arrested in 2018 after India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) registered a false case against them.

They booked them under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. and took them to Tihar jail where they still remain imprisoned.

Ms Andrabi suffers from life threatening diseases such as Angiodema, Utrecaria, Arthrites, Asthma and Bronchospasm.

Nahida Nasreen and Sofi Fehmeeda

DeM General Secretary, Nahida Nasreen, 55, mother of two sons and a daughter, also suffers from various health issues. The family says that she has been denied proper medical care inside the infamous Tihar jail.

The Press Secretary of DeM Sofi Fehmeeda, 32, is bedridden and suffers from various health-related issues.

On the other hand, the UN General Secretary Antonio Guterres’ office has called for countries to take a very close look at incarcerations during the Coronavirus pandemic.

As countries around the world released prisoners in order to prevent outbreaks in prisons, the Supreme Court of India directed all states and administration of occupied Kashmir to release prisoners on parole, but with conditions attached.

Indian authorities arrested around 15,000 Kashmiris only after August 05, 2019.

Then Narendra Modi-led fascist government repealed special status of occupied Kashmir.

Indian govt put the territory under military siege, which still continues.

Following the outbreak of pandemic, some Kashmiri prisoners were released from various jails of occupied Kashmir.

However, thousands remain detained in various Indian jails.

Kashmiri prisoners protest

Recently, prisoners lodged at district jail Islamabad in south Kashmir tested positive for COVID-19.

That added to the worries of their families who hail from various districts of the occupied territory.

Meanwhile, officials in the jails had said that besides 90 inmates, a policeman and a contractor supplying daily essentials to the jail, had tested positive.

A family member of one of the detainees had told media that fitting 200 inmates in a space feasible for 60 inmates was the main cause of spreading of the virus.

He added that putting the detainees in a common sharing space would worsen the situation.

Families of other Kashmiri prisoners lodged in the jails across India too have raised concerns regarding the health and ill-treatment meted out to the detainees.

GTV