Jailed Kashmiri leader Yasin Malik has said he will no longer contest a case in which he has been implicated in what he describes as a false charge, saying he has lost faith in India’s judicial system.
In a 25-page affidavit filed before a Srinagar court in early September, Malik said he would accept whatever punishment the court imposed and asked that he be sentenced to death. He stressed that accepting a sentence should not be treated as an admission of guilt, describing his decision as a protest against what he called political persecution and a judicial process incapable of delivering justice.
Malik, chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, has spent years in Indian prisons and has been held in Delhi’s Tihar Jail for over eight years. The affidavit also became a deeply personal account of prolonged incarceration. Malik announced his decision to end his marriage to Mushaal Hussein Mullick after istikhara and wrote to his mother, wife and 13-year-old daughter, Raziya Sultana. He said he had not heard his daughter’s voice for eight years.
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