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Jailed Kashmiri freedom leader Yasin Malik has announced he is releasing his wife, Mushaal Malik, from their marriage in a written statement, prompting an anguished video response from daughter Razia Sultana warning her father.
From behind the walls of an Indian prison, Yasin Malik has delivered a statement that has shaken his family, the Kashmiri freedom movement, and the thousands of supporters who have stood by him through decades of imprisonment and struggle.
The jailed Kashmiri Hurriyat leader has reportedly declared in a written statement that he is releasing his wife Mushaal Malik from their marriage bond, a declaration that sent shockwaves through activist circles and political communities connected to the Kashmir cause before being confirmed in the most heartbreaking way possible — by his own daughter.
The crux of Yasin Malik's written statement, as understood from sources and subsequent family responses, reflects the despair of a man who has spent years in solitary confinement in one of India's most secure prisons under conditions that international human rights organizations have repeatedly described as inhumane.
In his statement, Malik expressed a wish to be free of the obligations that tie his wife to his suffering. He indicated he no longer wished to subject Mushaal to the uncertainty, pain, and endless waiting of being married to a man who may never walk free. His letter conveyed the sense of a man who appears to have lost hope in his own future while simultaneously trying to give his wife the freedom to rebuild hers.
The letter also contained what those close to the family describe as a wish for death, a desire to end his suffering that has deeply alarmed his family and supporters. The statement was described as reflecting not anger or political despair alone but the profound psychological weight of years of isolation in conditions that would test the endurance of any human being.
Mushaal Malik Collapses — Razia's Video Breaks Hearts. The statement's impact on the family was immediate and devastating.
Razia Sultana, Yasin Malik and Mushaal Malik's only daughter, appeared in a video statement that has circulated widely and that represents one of the most emotionally raw public expressions of family grief seen in recent Pakistani and Kashmiri public discourse.
Razia began by acknowledging her father's decades of sacrifice for the Kashmiri cause and her mother's years of extraordinary loyalty and suffering as the wife of an imprisoned freedom leader. She then turned to address her father directly.
Her words were simultaneously a plea, a rebuke, and a warning.
"Your written statement is telling us that you have lost," she said directly to her father. "You have forgotten your own struggle and the struggle of thousands of Kashmiris. And now you only want death for yourself."
She did not soften what came next.
"The way you are asking for death — that is not the way of brave people. That is the way of cowardly people. If you have done this, if you have thought this wrongly, this will be a betrayal and disloyalty to the movement."
Razia then revealed the physical toll her father's statement had taken on her mother. The moment Mushaal saw her husband's statement, she collapsed unconscious. Two days later, her condition remained poor.
"If all of this is true, you have not given this loyal woman a good reward for her loyalty," Razia said, her voice breaking.
And then she issued the warning that left everyone who heard it in silence.
"Your own blood, your only daughter, Razia Sultana, is warning you — if you make any wrong decision or extreme action, your daughter will not take even one minute to follow you with bad news after you are gone. Razia Sultana will do anything."
Yasin Malik has been imprisoned in India's Tihar Jail since 2019, serving a life sentence on charges related to terrorism and sedition that his supporters and international human rights organizations have consistently described as politically motivated. He has undertaken multiple hunger strikes during his imprisonment, and his health has been a subject of ongoing concern.
His wife Mushaal Malik, a Pakistani national and activist in her own right, has campaigned tirelessly for his release on international platforms, meeting world leaders, addressing human rights forums, and keeping the global spotlight on her husband's case during years when the Kashmir issue has struggled to maintain sustained international attention.
Their daughter Razia Sultana was born during a period of her father's imprisonment and has grown up with his absence as a central fact of her life.
The family's current crisis, played out in a public video statement by a young woman addressing a father she cannot reach, is a human story of extraordinary pain that sits beneath the geopolitical dimensions of the Kashmir conflict and reminds the world that behind every political prisoner is a family paying a price that cannot be measured in any political calculation.
Mushaal Malik and Razia Sultana deserve answers. And Yasin Malik deserves the minimum standard of humane treatment that every prisoner — regardless of the charges against them — is entitled to under international law.