IOK Bar condemns ill treatment meted out to detainees.

ISLAMABAD -- The High Court Bar Association has strongly condemned the ill treatment meted out to the Kashmiri detainees and under-trial prisoners lodged in different jails particularly at District Jail Kathua in the Jammu region in Indian occupied Kashmir.

The detainees confined to cells for days together and are forced to cut grass and do other menial jobs inside the jail and are also denied medical treatment, the Bar Association said in a statement issued in Srinagar.

'The latest example is the case of Mohammad Shaban Dar of Marhama, who is suffering of jaundice and has not been provided the treatment,' the Bar said terming the same as barbaric, cruel and inhuman. It demanded that Principal District Judge, Kathua should immediately visit District Jail Kathua to ensure the safety and security of Kashmiri prisoners lodged in the said jail.

The Bar Association added that the detainees and under-trials were also human beings and they were also entitled to the right to life and to all those aspects of life, 'which make a person to live in dignity are also available to them...