{"id":167301,"date":"2025-02-09T21:06:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T16:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=167301"},"modified":"2025-02-09T21:06:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T16:06:03","slug":"er-rashid-continues-hunger-strike-in-new-delhis-tihar-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/02\/09\/er-rashid-continues-hunger-strike-in-new-delhis-tihar-jail.html","title":{"rendered":"Er Rashid continues hunger strike in New Delhi&#8217;s Tihar jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-167305\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/eng-rashid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"616\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/02\/eng-rashid.jpg 616w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/02\/eng-rashid-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>New Delhi: President of Awami Ittehad Party in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir and a member of the Indian Parliament Engineer Rashid continued his hunger strike for the tenth day today.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, Er Rashid, detained in New Delhi&#8217;s notorious Tihara Jail, has been on a hunger strike to protest his continued illegal detention and to keep himself away from the Parliament session.<\/p>\n<p>His health deteriorated on Friday during the hunger strike, after which he was admitted to a hospital in New Delhi. He has been in prison under the black law Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement in Srinagar, AIP&#8217;s central spokesperson Inam-un-Nabi expressed deep concern over the deteriorating health of the party chief and said that he is continuing his hunger strike in Ram Manohar Lohia hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the AIP during a meeting in Jammu urged the Indian judiciary to ensure justice and provision of all basic facilities to Er Rashid.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting expressed grave concern over the deteriorating health of the party chief and said subjecting an elected MP to injustice is a serious violation of democratic principles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: President of Awami Ittehad Party in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir and a member of the Indian Parliament Engineer Rashid continued his hunger strike for the tenth day today. According to Kashmir Media Service, Er Rashid, detained in New Delhi&#8217;s notorious Tihara Jail, has been on a hunger strike to protest his &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/02\/eng-rashid.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}