Yasin Malik begins hunger strike in Tihar Jail seeking ‘fair trial’
Hindustan TimesJailed Kashmiri leader Yasin Malik has begun a hunger strike in Delhi's Tihar Jail seeking a fair trial in his case, said prison officials. The separatist leader is facing trial in cases related to the 1989 abduction of Rubaiya Sayeed, daughter of then Union home minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, and killing of four Indian Air Force officials in 1990. A statement quoting JKLF spokesperson Muhammad Rafiq Dar said a meeting of the “supreme council” of the outfit had termed the non-presentation of Malik in courts as “illegal, inhumane and undemocratic”. Dar said Malik had originally decided to begin the hunger strike from July 12, a day before the last court hearing, which he postponed for 10 days on the request of jail authorities so that they had some time to take up the issue with concerned higher authorities.