Frankfurt (Germany), May 9 (ANI) — The Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM) has accused Pakistani authorities of systemic torture and human rights abuses against political prisoners and ordinary inmates in prisons across Sindh, saying it will raise the issue with international human rights bodies and global media.
In a post on X, JSMM chairman Shafi Burfat alleged that Sindh’s prisons have been turned into centres of “political revenge, fear and repression,” where detainees face severe physical and psychological mistreatment overseen by prison officials and state agencies.
The party said several political prisoners linked to JSMM are being held in solitary confinement in cramped cells, chained with handcuffs and iron shackles. JSMM also claimed that sick inmates are being denied medical treatment, medicines and access to doctors, and that poor-quality food and contaminated drinking water are worsening health conditions inside the facilities.
JSMM accused authorities of restricting family visits and cutting off prisoners’ communications with relatives, characterising those measures as deliberate attempts to break detainees mentally. The group maintained that many Sindhi political activists have been arrested without transparent legal processes and targeted for their political views, advocacy of Sindhi rights and demands for greater autonomy.
The organisation appealed to the United Nations, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the International Committee of the Red Cross and European human rights institutions to intervene and investigate the alleged abuses in Sindh’s prisons. It demanded an immediate end to torture, enforced disappearances and what it described as politically motivated arrests, and called for independent international inquiries into prison conditions and the conduct of state agencies and prison officials.
JSMM said it plans to stage protests in Germany and step up engagement with international organisations to highlight what it called “state repression and fascism” against Sindhi political workers. The group argued that imprisonment, torture or enforced disappearances cannot crush a political movement and insisted the struggle for national rights and freedom is protected under international law.
(ANI)
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