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Instead of demanding oxygen at this crucial time, Mehbooba asks PM to release anti-nationals
5/8/2021 12:14:44 AM

Early Times Report

Jammu, May 7: Amid worsening COVID situation in J&K, former chief minister and president of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mehbooba Mufti is worried over those anti-national elements lodged in different jails. Instead of writing a letter to Prime Minister, Narendra Modi to arrange oxygen and dedicated COVID beds across UT to treated patients, Mehbooba has written a letter to the Prime Minister demanded the release of all the political prisoners and detainees in wake of the ongoing pandemic.
According to reports, Mehbooba has written a letter to Prime Minister in which she has stated that “I write to you at a time when the entire country has been engulfed by a deadly second wave of COVID. Unfortunately, the health infrastructure has completely collapsed & the harrowing images of stranded COVID patients gasping for breath have shocked us all.” “Worrying reports about prisoners dying due to COVID-19 and subsequent lack of medical attention has been trickling in. At a time when the system is struggling to cope with this horrendous situation, the lives of prisoners may be the least priority,” she said in her letter.
“As far as Kashmir is concerned, it is no secret that hundreds, or maybe thousands of detainees and political prisoners arrested since August 2019 continue to languish in jails both in and outside J&K. Most of them are detained under preventive laws and don't face any prosecution.
Many continue to be held even after courts granted them bail. The most recent reminder of the lurking threat to their lives is Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai’s death who lost his life because he contracted COVID in jail and was deprived of medical care”, she said while demanding the release of all prisoners.
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