Srinagar 05TH Feb 2018 (KNO) : Chairman Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Muhammad Yasin Malik has strongly condemned the prolonged incarceration of Doctor Muhammad Qasim Faktoo and others who has today completed his 25 years in jail. Terming the prolonged incarceration of Doctor Muhammad Qasim Faktoo, Ghulam Qadir Bhat and professor Muhammad Shafi Khan (Sharaiti) as grave violation of existing international and even Indian laws, JKLF chairman said that Kashmiris are being put in jails for their political beliefs and under the pretext of various redundant grounds their incarceration is prolonged and they along with their families are put to hardships. JKLF chairman said that Doctor Muhammad Qasim Faktoo is a religious scholar and a prominent political figure and he and others are being put to hardships for his political belief. Dozens of other inmates including Syed Sajid Hassan Bukhari are languishing in Indian jails since more than two decades, added JKLF chairman and no one are paying heed to their plight. He said that according to the Jail manual of Jammu Kashmir and various Indian states Doctor Muhammad Qasim Faktoo, Ghulam Qadir Bhat and other inmates should have got freedom from jails long before but as in other cases vis-à-vis Jammu Kashmir, contemporary international and even Indian laws are being trampled under military boots and the political incarceration of these inmates is being prolonged under various petty excuses. JKLF chairman appealed ICRC and other international human rights organizations to take note of these gross human rights violations and rights of prisoners and save the lives of these Kashmiri inmates. JKLF chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik has paid rich tributes to martyrs advocate Muhammad Hussein, Shaheed Muhammad Yakoob Khan (Chataiee), Shaheed Ghulam Muhammad and Shaheed Muhammad Maqbool Teli on their martyrdom day. Recalling the sacrifices of these martyrs, Yasin sahib said that these martyrs sacrificed their today for our tomorrow. While paying tributes to Shaheed advocate Hussein, Yasin sahib said that he was a highly educated person who embraced martyrdom at JKLF headquarters. Yasin sahib expressed solidarity with their families. JKLF has also paid rich tributes to innocent martyr Zahid Farooq on his martyrdom day today. JKLF leader Bashir Ahmad Kashmiri today participated in the congregational prayers meeting held for martyr Zahid Farooq and expressed solidarity with his bereaved family.(KNO)