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'Don't know if he is dead or alive'

Kashmiri man with cancer jailed, family fears for his life

Al Jazeera online
Kulgam, Indian-administered Kashmir Muhammad Ayoub Pala, 60, a frail man with white flowing beard, is unsure whether his cancer-stricken son arrested in August is dead or alive.
Parvez Ahmad Pala, 33, from Matibug village in Indian-administered Kashmir's Kulgam district, was picked up by the Indian security forces in a midnight raid on August 6.
The arrest came a day after India abrogated Article 370 of its constitution, which granted the Jammu and Kashmir state a degree of autonomy. Concurrent with the move, a crippling security lockdown was imposed on the Muslim-majority region, which entered its third month yesterday.
"At night, the forces entered our house and took him away. I ran after him but they kicked me and put him in a vehicle," his father recounted the night to Al Jazeera.
Parvez, who has two children aged eight and 10, is a cancer patient on life saving drugs, his family said. He was diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer in 2014 and has also undergone a surgery, his medical records show.
The family said he also suffers from a skin disease and has paralysis in one of his hands.
Parvez's medical certificate issued by the department of nuclear medicine at Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, a major tertiary care hospital in the main city of Srinagar, says he has been on a "high dose therapy" since July 2015. He needs daily medication and regular investigation, they added.
But for the last two months, the family has no idea of his health condition.
Parvez was booked under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA), a law that allows detention up to two years without bail.
After Article 370 was scrapped, India's Hindu nationalist government arrested political leaders, separatists and hundreds of young people, including 144 children, some as young as nine years old.
Official figures say at least 350 of those arrested have been booked under the PSA, with most of them shifted to jails outside the Kashmir region.
Parvez's family said officials in a jail in Uttar Pradesh state's Bareilly district denied them permission to meet their sick son.
"I went to meet him on August 17 but the jail authorities there did not allow. I pleaded with them to just give him the medicines and clothes but to no avail. I came back heartbroken after trying for three days," his father told Al Jazeera.
"I do not know if he is dead or alive."
A police dossier prepared by Kulgam's district magistrate termed Parvez as "a great threat to the security, sovereignty and integrity of state". The dossier says Parvez is an active over ground worker of banned Hizbul Mujahideen outfit.
Parvez's family has filed a petition in the Jammu and Kashmir high court, challenging his detention on medical grounds. But they fear the legal battle might be too long while his life remains at stake.