India: Somali Parents Wants their Children Released

Somali parents highlighted their request towards their children who are detained in India to be released quickly saying they face hardships in Indian jails.

Speaking to Goobjoog News, some of the parents said they forwarded numerous requests to the federal government though their pleas were given cold shoulders yet their off springs face despicable hardships in the prisons.

Halima Kulane Omar who is parent to one of the Somali detainees in India said the Somali ambassador to India is hugely part of the problems facing their children by compelling them to confess crimes that have not committed.

“Our children faced hardships and sufferings in India compounded with body torture. The Somali ambassador in that country forces the youths to plead guilty to offenses they never done” Halima said.

Meanwhile Halima narrated how the parents of the jailed youths have gone to the ministry of Foreign Affairs on several occasions only to be denied access to the building.

Recently the Federal Government announced through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the ratification of a bilateral agreement with the Indian government on the exchange of prisoners between the countries.

Large numbers of Somali prisoners are jailed in India which are believed to be reaching 118 persons who are mostly accused of sea piracy around the Gulf of Aden and Indian ocean waters near Somalia.