IIOJK in focus

Long detained Muslim league leader disappears in Indian police custody

Srinagar: A long-detained Muslim League Jammu and Kashmir leader, Abdul Rashid Shingan, has disappeared in Indian police custody in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

According to Kashmir Media Service, the jailed leader, Abdul Rashid Shingan of Batamaloo, Srinagar, had been facing 15 years of illegal detention in Central Jail Srinagar.

The jailed leader was taken by Indian police from the Central Jail Srinagar on a police release order and has been missing for four days.

The police, after taking him from Srinagar Central Jail, told his family that he had been shifted outside IIOJK jail but did not provide his whereabouts.

The victim’s family is anxious about his whereabouts.

APHC spokesman Abdul Rashid Minhas, in a statement in Srinagar, condemned the re-arrest of the detained leader and expressed serious concern over his whereabouts.

The statement urged the UN and other world human rights organizations to take serious notice of the matter of political prisoners languishing in different jails of IIOJK and in India.

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