Altaf Hamid Rao.
MIRPUR ( AJK), (Parliament Times) : Mr. Aboudou Ramanou Ali, Commission Member of the OIC Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission, on Monday expressed his organisation’s deep regret and condemnation of the cruel, inhuman and grossly illegal practice of arbitrary detention, termed as ‘Administrative detention, exercised by the occupying powers of Israel and India against the occupied innocent Palestinians and Kashmiri Muslims in Indian occupied Jammu Kashmir State.
Our Special Jammu and Kashmir Correspondent Altaf Hamid Rao reports from Geneva that while addressing the 54th Session of Human Rights Council in Geneva, with Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on Monday, September 18 delivering the IPHRC’s Statement, Aboudou Ramanou Ali said “Israel and India routinely use administrative detention and has, over the years, placed thousands of Palestinians and Kashmiris behind bars for periods ranging from several months to several years, without charging them or to allowing them engage with their lawyers. This constitute denial of fair trial and due process of law which is a serious violation of their human rights”.
He continued that according to figures published by the Israel Prison Service, in March 2023, Israel was holding 1,017 people in administrative detention including children. Similarly, in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Indian security forces have abused the Public Safety Act of 1978 to detain innocent civilians, including women and children and journalists and human rights defenders, on vague and arbitrary grounds on the apprehension that they may ‘likely’ commit an offence.
Aboudou Ramanou Ali underlined that the lives of these prisoners and detainees are under serious threat because of the inhumane and unjust conditions imposed by the occupation authorities which constitute serious violation of international human rights and humanitarian laws.
The Commission, while reiterating its full support to the inalienable rights of the Palestinian and Kashmiri people, underscores the need to end the cruel and unjust practice of administrative detention which helps maintain a system of apartheid against Palestinians and Kashmiris, he concluded in the statement.
