Geelani condemns PSA against Alam

Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman, Syed Ali Shah Geelani has strongly condemned imposition of Public Safety Act on the amalgam’s general secretary Masrat Alam Bhat and senior leader Abdul Hameed Magray.

“Kashmir has practically been turned into a police state and administration of justice has been suspended. Booking the two leaders under the draconian public safety act and shifting them to Udhampur and Kot Balwal jails has once exposed the government’s stubbornness to curb peaceful political activities by coercion. Instead of releasing the already detained political leaders the government has launched a new wave of arrests and detentions under draconian laws,” Geelani said in a statement issued on Tuesday.

Terming the recent arrest of Raja Begum from Sopore as police “hooliganism,” Geelani said no reasons were given to the woman’s family for her ‘illegal detention.’

Deploring the continued detention of Mian Qayoom, Ashraf Sehrai, G.N Shaheen, Asiya Andrabi and other pro-freedom leaders Geelani said talks of political process were meaningless unless all political prisoners were released.