Sehar Shabbir Shah, daughter of illegally detained All Paties Hurriyat Converence (APHC) leader Shabbir Ahmad Shah, has said that her father’s health is deteriorating with each passing day in New Delhi’s infamous Tihar jail.
Sehar along with her elder sister met her father at Tihar Jail in New Delhi today. She said he looked pale, weak, fragile, and extremely unwell.
“My father, a man of immense courage, strength and unshakable resolve, who has withstood decades of imprisonment and injustice with grace and dignity looked physically deteriorated today. Though he is unshakable but today his health is giving up on him”, she lamented.
She said just days ago, Public Relations Officer of Director General (Prison) Tihar Jail issued a public notice denying our concerns and claiming my father is “fit and fine.” “I say with full responsibility that this is not true at all,” she added.
Sehar Shabbir said, yes he was taken to Safdarjung Hospital and doctors had told him directly that he is suffering from cancer and Alhamdulillah, the test came out negative for cancer. She said the way the whole process was undertaken is just not human as he was taken without informing us, put under general anaesthesia, kept admitted for two days and the bleeding issue for which the procedure (cystoscopy) was done still continues.
She said her father is suffering from severe heart issues, diabetes mellitus prostate infection, bilateral hernia needing urgent surgery, and knee problems, yet receiving no proper treatment.
“I saw him. He could barely walk. His declining health is devastating,” she deplored. Sehar said her father has never been convicted, yet his court cases are endlessly delayed and calls have been cut for over 1.5 years.
She appealed to the world community and international human rights organisations to help release her father Shabbir Ahmad Shah and other illegally detained Hurriyat leaders and activists languishign in different jails of India and the territory.
