UN official complains on Jagan’s jailing

New York, Feb 2, 2013: AP Human Rights Observers' Association, affiliated to United Nations Organization (UNO) and International Bar Association, has viewed as gross human rights violation the jailing of YSR Congress Party President Sri Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy for the last 8 months before trial.

In a memorandum submitted to the International Human Rights High Commissioner Navaneetam Pillai, the Association’s President Tamim requested him to interfere and protect the human rights in AP.

Tamim, who is also the member of the UN Social and Economic Council, told Pillai in his memorandum that Sri Jagan Mohan Reddy has been jailed illegally for the last eight months without any trail in full violation of human rights and requested him to involve in the issue and ensure that the young Kadapa MP was released from jail.

“I also met UN Human Rights Deputy High Commissioner King Wah Kong, Assistant Secretary General Ivan Ivanovic and Scretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s special adviser Kim Won Soo and explained situation in AP,” Tamim disclosed in a statement.

Tamim said in his memorandum to the UN officials that Sri Jagan Mohan Reddy has been arrested and jailed after the death of Dr. YSR to trouble him politically.CBI is not in a position to prove its charges against him and willfully denying bail to him ever since his arrest eight months ago, he complained to them.

Tamim also said with Sri Jagan Mohan Reddy’s arrest, Dr. YSR family is being subjected to harassment and political vendetta. “Two crore people signed condemning his arrest and if justice is not rendered immediately, there is a chance of protests taking place across the state causing law and order problems,” he said in his memorandum.