HYDERABAD: The Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners (CRPP) demanded that the State Government should release unconditionally all the political life convicts.
The CRPP also demanded that the Government should restore the erstwhile Hyderabad State Practices for releasing the prisoners who had good conduct for five years in jails.
The inaugural conference of the CRPP AP chapter was held at Sundaraiah Vignana Kendram here Friday.
After inaugurating the seminar, noted advocate and civil rights leader K G Kannabhiran said the State was not honouring the civil rights of political prisoners. He called upon intellectuals and human rights associations to launch a movement for protecting prisoners’ rights. All political parties were concentrating on power politics and were unable to think about the minimum rights of common citizens, he said. Revolutionary Writers Association member P Vara Vara Rao said if the State Government did not release political prisoners, a State-wide agitation would be launched. Thousands of Telugu political prisoners were languishing in various jails in several States he said and alleged that the State was harassing the youth in the name of Maoist and Islamic terrorism.