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<\/p>\nPakistan has urged UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to use his good offices to ask India to release Kashmiri leader Muhammad Yasin Malik, who is languishing in New Delhi\u2019s Tihar jail.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe persecution of political leaders resisting Indian occupation under its draconian emergency powers, laws and mechanisms without due process and safeguards are gross violations of their fundamental human rights,\u201d Ambassador Munir Akram said in a letter to the UN chief in which he also enclosed an appeal from Ms. Maashal Malik for the release of her husband, who is in poor health.<\/p>\n
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Mrs. Malik said that the continued physical and mental torture of her husband has left him in a very \u201cfragile\u201d state.<\/p>\n
In his letter, released on Wednesday, Ambassador Akram reminded the secretary-general about his earlier letter which drew his attention to the continued incarceration of the Kashmiri political activist Ms. Asiya Andrabi by India since 2016.<\/p>\n
He also also attached a resolution adopted by Pakistan\u2019s Senate on the cases of Yasin Malik and all other political prisoners in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir that urges the Pakistan government to seek their swift release from India\u2019s illegal imprisonment with the assistance of the United Nations.<\/p>\n
The Pakistani envoy pointed out that the High Commissioner for Human Rights, various Special Rapporteurs and prominent non-governmental organizations, such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have repeatedly called on Indian authorities to repeal the draconian laws which were used by security forces to incarcerate political leaders.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Indian authorities have made a mockery of the basic principles of the rule of law and undermined their right to fair trial and due process,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnder the circumstances,\u201d Ambassador Akram added, \u201cI request you to use your good offices to urge India to immediately halt the illegal incarceration of Mr. Yasin Malik and release him from prison.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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