Activists have been demanding revocation of such laws in the restive state because they believe that these have often been used to hold individuals in arbitrary detention on vague grounds for long periods of time, ignoring regular criminal justice safeguards.
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In occupied Kashmir, the puppet authorities have re-arrested noted human rights activist, Khurram Parvez, and booked him under black law, Public Safety Act.
On Tuesday evening, Khurram was released from Kupwara sub-jail but detained again at police station Kupwara.
Khurram’s family on Wednesday went to the District Commissioner Srinagar’s office with an application that Khurram be detained in Srinagar and not shifted to outside the city. He returned home in the morning wherefrom he was arrested later at on last Thursday night. “Sabzar, the SHO, told us that he won’t share anything with us but will say the police’s version in court”, the family member said.
It could not be confirmed if Khurram is still in Srinagar or already shifted to Kotbalwal jail. “Rather than trying prevent Parvez from speaking about human rights issues in Jammu and Kashmir, the Government of India must take serious action to ensure security forces immediately halt the use of torture and enforced disappearances and ensure guilty officials are prosecuted”. Later, the authorities slapped the PSA on him and shifted him to Kot Bhalwal Jail in Jammu.
“Detaining a person right after he is released, without any intention to charge him or bring him to trial, amounts to using a revolving door of persecution”, Aakar Patel, Executive Director, Amnesty International India, said in a statement.
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Parvez was arrested on September 16 and placed in administrative detention in a jail in Kupwara for allegedly posing an imminent threat of breach of peace.
