Three more Kashmiris tested positive for Coronavirus in IOJK

Three more Kashmiris tested positive for Coronavirus in IOJK (India-occupied Jammu and Kashmir).

Three more patients tested positive for the coronavirus in the Jammu region.

Now, the number of total positive cases in the entire occupied Jammu and Kashmir reached to 54.

Two of them have died, so far.

In occupied Kashmir, the Jammu and Kashmir People’s Movement has urged the United Nations to secure the release of Hurriyat leaders and activists in view of the outbreak of coronavirus.

APHC leader and JKPM Chairman Mir Shahid Saleem in a statement in Jammu said that the Kashmiri people are extremely concerned about the hundreds of innocent prisoners, especially the aged and ailing ones, languishing in Indian jails.

He said instead of releasing them the authorities are keeping them in the overcrowded jails, exposing them to the serious health threats.

Meanwhile, Hurriyat Leader and President of Jammu and Kashmir Salvation Movement Altaf Ahmed Butt and Jammu and Kashmir Islami Tanzeem-e-Azadi lamented condition of detainees.

In their separate statements expressed concern over lack of health facilities for Kashmiri political detainees imprisoned in Indian jails.

They sought intervention by the international community for their release.

UN urged to secure release of IOJ&K detainees from Indian jails

In occupied Kashmir, Indian authorities have revoked draconian Public Safety Act against 14 people, who were arrested in August, last year, and released them from Central Jail, Srinagar.

These persons were lodged in Central Jail, Srinagar.

Earlier, the authorities have revoked PSA of former puppet Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah his son and former puppet Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. Both these leaders were released from the custody.

Political experts while commenting on the release of just 14 out of several hundred people detained under PSA termed the move as a cosmetic measure and an attempt to hoodwink the world.