Islamabad, June 19, 2023 (PPI-OT): Mushaal Hussein Mullick, the Chairperson of Peace and Culture Organisation and wife of jailed Kashmiri Hurriyat leader, Muhammad Yasin Malik, has sought intervention of the United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres to save Hurriyat leader Muhammad Yasin Malik’s life from Indian judicial murder. Mushaal Hussein Mullick in a letter addressed to the UN chief Antonio Guterres and appealed to him to play his role to avert a judicial murder of her husband.
She said, “I am Mushaal Hussein Mullick, the distraught wife of an unlawfully incarcerated husband and mother of an 11 years old girl who has been denied father’s hug for almost 9 years. I am writing to you at a time when words fall on me, yet with great hope in the office you hold and the principles you represent.” She said help her articulate the right sentences to explain to an 11 years old that her father is on death row for demanding the right to self-determination and what the UN has mandated as our right.
“My husband Yasin Malik is the face of Kashmir’s non-violent political struggle, which stems from a resolution of the very organisation you head today,” she maintained. Mushaal said he has given away his youth, his family and his health in belief that the people of Kashmir deserve, as the most basic of human rights, the right to self-determination: all so with the most non-belligerent, orthodox political ethos for that he currently rots in a death cell of the notorious Tihar Jail in India since 7 May 2019 with no rights of a fair trial.
She said that Yasin has spent 25 such years in multiple Indian jails. Are we waiting for him to die and crown him Kashmir’s Mandela? “I am practically a widow, but does the English language have a word to describe a child whose father she has not met in almost a decade? I am no legal expert and nor do I have the luxury of time to engage one, but it should not take a law degree for me to appeal to your sense of basic human dignity,” she added.
Mushaal stated that Yasin Malik was last arrested on 22 February 2019 in Srinagar under Public Safety Act (PSA), a law, which many experts have labelled as a draconian and oppressive legal instrument.
Since then, he is in perpetual mental and physical torture, solitary confinement in a death cell with an open toilet. He is frail in health with multiple ailments. “Our daughter and I have been deprived of meeting Yasin Malik in a safe environment for the past 8 and a half years because each time we visit Srinagar and Delhi we are harassed, attacked and assaulted by radical goons of RSS, abused and humiliated by the Indian authorities and my husband gets jailed for indefinite periods or goes into hiding for leading processions of Kashmiris against gross human rights violations committed by Indian forces,” Mushaal lamented.
She said the Indian government has created an atmosphere of horror and panic, thus making it impossible for a wife and daughter to meet her jailed husband and father, adding that how much more is the world willing to watch him endure before they intervene? The Chairperson said with Indian general elections on the horizon she senses imminent danger to her husband’s life because since his arrest, Modi’s government had tasked Indian National Investigation Agency (NIA) to engineer politically motivated cases of terror funding against Yasin to link his peaceful political struggle with terrorism.
Mushaal revealed that on 25 May 2022, Yasin was given two life imprisonments without following the due course of law and in the opaquest manner, adding that not finding two life terms enough to satisfy their egos and political agenda, the BJP government on 26 May 2023, moved NIA’s plea in the Delhi High Court to seek capital punishment for Yasin to garner public support in the upcoming ballot.
“My husband has repeatedly protested against these unfair and biased proceedings, who has never pleaded guilty but has not been allowed to prudently present his case; a denial of his fundamental human right, but that’s just one in the long list of rights trampled under a fascist regime,” she added. She stated that Yasin had been denied physical appearance in the courts throughout the trial without plausible reason and had been unable to hear majority of the arguments made by prosecuting team over video link, resultantly he has not been able to respond effectively to the allegations against him, a travesty of justice.
“In Yasin’s case, the government of India is in blatant violation of Geneva Conventions, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment and Punishment, as well as customary international law codified in Standard Minimum Rules for Treatment of Prisoners adopted by the United Nations General Assembly and Security Council,” she added. “I am clueless as to what influence the Indian government holds over the world to stay quiet about this. But I Implore, is the death of an innocent man worth Geo-Politics,” she asked.
“My husband, I know, will never have let me write this mercy petition for his life. He would have told me to write for the rights of Kashmiri’s. But Excellency, I am a mother and a wife of a political prisoner. I can’t but appeal to you to intervene for the release of my husband, the most popular Kashmiri leader, on medical/ humanitarian grounds and his immediate transfer to a life care facility which he badly needs,” she appealed.
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