Torture, night raids and mass detentions—Shehla Rashid, a Kashmiri leader claims Indian forces are clamping down on Kashmir with an iron fist
Mohammad Siddiq, 70, was wounded when an Indian police man fired a pellet gun at him while returning home from a mosque badly damaging his left eye on August 17, 2019. A 65-year-old named Mohammad Ayub had died in the hospital on Saturday night after being admitted withDespite the fact that Kashmir is already one of the most, a fresh troop deployment was made to clamp down on voices in the valley, right before the abrogation of Article 370.
India-administered Kashmir has been a battlefield for decades now. But this time around, the region, especially the restive south Kashmir—which has been a witness to deadly protests and the highest militant recruitment in recent years—did not experience any mass protests as it did during past agitations.locals allege that people are being arrested and taken into prison to instill fear in them.
A magistrate said on condition of anonymity that at least 4,000 people were arrested and held under the Public Safety Act , a controversial law that allows authorities to imprison someone for up to two years without charge or trial. They said the "few preventive detentions" were made to avoid a "breach of the peace" in a region that has fought an armed rebellion against Indian rule for three decades.
Kashmiris walk past broken window glass after clashes between protesters and the security forces on Friday evening, during restrictions following the scrapping of the special constitutional status for Kashmir by the Indian government on August 17, 2019. Another security official said "thousands are jailed" but that the figure did not include other residents whose detentions at police stations had not been recorded.
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