الهند: احتجاز وتعذيب شباب مسلمين لنقص في أوراق سفرهم

- خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

كشفت الصحافة الهندية عن أن بعض الشباب المسلمين تم احتجازهم وتعذيبهم في المطار من قبل حكومة جزر"كالبيني" التابعة لمجموعة جزر "لكشديب" الواقعة جنوب غرب ولاية "كيرالا" على خلفية نقص في أوراقهم الرسمية وهو ما يتعارض مع قانون المنطقة الخاص بالسياح.

وبالرغم من مطالبة "ناريندرا مودي" - زعيم إقليم "جوجارت" - بالإفراج عن المعتقلين، إلا أنه قد تم احتجاز 26 مسلمًا واتهامهم بمقاومة الشرطة وتعريضهم للتعذيب. المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Muslim youths tortured after Modi’s call to release the detained tourists

Muslim youths in the Kalpeni Island of the Lakshwadeep are still subjected to torture on account of detaining the 131tourists including 45 from Gujarat, who were there without adequate documents. The tourists were believed to be the close aids and officials of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

They were held ‘hostage’ by locals on Kalpeni Island in Lakshadweep on 29th of October for lack of sufficient travel documents and were released on Sunday the 30th of October. Those blocked by the local people at Kalpeni were tourists, including 25 children, who had reached there on Saturday morning by MV Kavaratti from Kochi. After the tourists landed and left for their cottages, the islanders who examined their travel documents on the Internet found that over 100 of them had no proper documents including boarding passes.

They reached the Island under the ‘Samudra’ package of Lakshadweep tourism Department to visit the Kalpeni, Kavarathi and Minicoy Islands; in the ship MV Kavarathi with 750 passengers. The local inhabitants had special reservations to travel in the ship but they were often unable to enjoy the benefits due to the inefficient and corrupt local authorities, during the tourist seasons.

The tourists were expected to possess documents to each Island they intended to visit, unless they had sufficient documents they were supposed to be with in the Ship. It was the Island sports department responsible to provide adequate documents to the tourists and it was found that none among those 131 tourists including Modi’s Kin from Gujarat had their names in the passengers list or in the online port department list. It is believed that their documents and luggage weren’t sufficiently checked from Kochi port.

The local administration is said to have been imposing penalties on people arriving in Lakshadweep without proper tickets. In the particular situation, the people of Kalpeni reportedly demanded action against the travellers without proper documents but the administration explained that the problem was technical. This enraged the locals and they detained the tourists.

But what came out of the incident was like ‘the Islamic extremists detained Modi’s men’. Some among the detained in the due time called up Modi and on Modi’s call to Home Minister Chidambaram, Island Administrator Amarnath and Collector N Vasantha kumar were soon there in Helicopter along with Military force. Soon 26 of the local Muslim youths were taken in to the custody being charged of attacking the Police.

They were taken to Kavarathi Police station and subjected to extreme tortures. Though they are now out on bail from the two days remand, they are asked to sign in the Kavarathi Police station on a daily basis. Not even a case was charged against the Gujarat tourists, who were there without necessary documents.