Muhammad Farooq Rehmani denounces PSA against Rafeeq Ganai

Islamabad, 25Nov, 2010: Muhammad Farooq Rehmani Chairman Jammu and Kashmir People's Freedom League has strongly denounced invoking of dreadful Public Safety Act against Muhammad Rafeeq Ganai General Secretary of the JKPFL, who has been shifted to Heeranagar jail Jammu after several months from an interrogation centre of Islamabad South Kashmir, despite his ill-health, due to mal- treatment and unhygienic food in Police stations. 

Referring to the worst human rights conditions in the state he said that another worker of the organization Riaz Ahmad Mir was languishing in a police camp of Bandipore for the last one month, and Ghulam Ahmad Rishi a party sympathizer of the People's Freedom League was subjected to savage beating by army in Boothoo Bandipore only to break his left arm. 

He said the army and police have launched a fresh campaign of terror, torture and humiliation of people in buses and on streets beating and using filthy language against them to demoralize and prevent the people from supporting the current ''go back India slogan.'' 

He said India was hoodwinking the world by the drama of interlocutors and Omar Abdullah the puppet Chief Minister was cheating and lying by his statements. He called upon the human rights organizations the world over to examine the record of human rights crimes by India in Kashmir and force it to repeal all the draconian laws in especially the AFSPA.