APHC urges Int'l organisations to play role for release of IIOJK detainees.

ISLAMABAD -- APHC leadership in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, has appealed to international human rights organizations to impress upon India to release all the Kashmiri detainees languishing in the infamous Tihar and other jails of India and the territory in the holy month of Ramadan.

In a statement issued in Srinagar, the APHC leadership said that many among thousands of detainees including APHC Chairman Masarrat Aalam Butt, Shabbir Ahmad Shah, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Nayeem Ahmad Khan and Aasiya Andrabi were facing health issues due to improper food and inadequate health facilities in jail.

They said the US State Department report also cited unlawful and arbitrary killings, torture or cruel, treatment or punishment by police...