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Yasin Malik, on Hunger Strike For Last 10 Days, Ends Protest: Tihar Officials

Malik began an indefinite hunger strike on July 22 after the Union government did not respond to his plea that he be allowed to physically appear in a Jammu court hearing the Rubaiya Sayeed abduction case in which he is an accused.

New Delhi: Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik, who was on hunger strike in Tihar Jail for the last 10 days, has discontinued his fasting after he was informed that his demands have been conveyed to the authorities concerned, prison officials said.

Malik began an indefinite hunger strike on July 22 after the Centre did not respond to his plea that he be allowed to physically appear in a Jammu court hearing the Rubaiya Sayeed abduction case in which he is an accused.

The 56-year-old chief of the banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) is serving a life sentence in a terror-funding case.

He has deferred his hunger strike for two months at the request of the Director General (DG) of Delhi Prisons Sandeep Goel, the officials said.

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The DG has conveyed to Malik that the demands raised by him have been sent to the authorities concerned and he will be informed of the decision on the same, said a senior jail official.

“Yasin Malik, who was on hunger strike in Tihar Jail since July 22, has today (Monday) evening, discontinued his fasting,” Goel said.

Meanwhile, Malik was shifted to the RML hospital on July 26 following a fluctuation in blood pressure, from where he returned to jail on July 29 and continued his fast.

The separatist leader, who is in a high-risk cell in Tihar’s prison number 7, was shifted to the prison’s Medical Investigation (MI) room where he was being given IV fluids, the officials said.

Malik had submitted a letter to the doctors at the hospital, saying he did not want to be treated.

(PTI)

Pakistan Summons India’s Charge d’Affaires Over Deteriorating Health of Yasin Malik

The Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chief began an indefinite hunger strike in jail on July 22 after India did not respond to his plea that he be allowed to physically appear in a Jammu court hearing the Rubaiya Sayeed case.

Islamabad: Pakistan on Friday, July 29, summoned India’s Charge d’Affaires here to the ministry of foreign Affairs and handed over a demarche conveying Islamabad’s concern over the deteriorating health condition of Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik.

Malik, who is lodged in Delhi’s Tihar jail, began an indefinite hunger strike on July 22 after the Indian government did not respond to his plea that he be allowed to physically appear in a Jammu court hearing the Rubaiya Sayeed abduction case, in which he is an accused.

The Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief was admitted to the capital’s Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital earlier on Wednesday following a fluctuation in his blood pressure.

The Indian diplomat was told about Pakistan’s “deep dismay” over the Indian authorities’ latest move of implicating Malik in “two more bogus cases crafted around incidents that happened at least three decades ago”, the Foreign Office said in a statement.

“A letter addressed to the Indian Prime Minister from Ms. Mushaal Hussein Mullick, wife of Yasin Malik, seeking her husband’s immediate release from prison in view of his precarious health condition that aggravated after his decision to go on a hunger strike earlier this month, was also handed over to the Cd’A,” it said.

A Delhi court in May handed out a life sentence to Malik, one of the foremost separatist leaders of Jammu and Kashmir, saying the crimes were intended to strike at the “heart of the idea of India” and intended to forcefully secede Jammu and Kashmir from the Union of India.

“Given the urgency of the situation and keeping in view Malik’s sharply deteriorating health indicators, the government of India has been strongly urged to provide him urgent medical care, immediately release him from prison, cancel his fallacious conviction and withdraw all other cases against him,” the Foreign Office statement said.