Malik arrested in Kashmir for protests over Afzal

Srinagar, Sep 27: Several Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) leaders, including chairman Yasin Malik, were arrested by police during protests here against a Delhi court order to hang till death Mohammad Afzal, the prime accused in the December 13, 2001 Parliament attack case, in Tihar jail on October 20.

Police took the separatist leaders into preventive custody while they were leading protests over the court order at Maisuma near the JKLF headquarters in the heart of the city.

Besides Malik, those arrested included Bashir Ahmed, Noor Mohammad Kalwal, Sheikh Abdul Rashid, Gulzar Ahmed Haroon and Ghulam Mohammad Hazari.

Several JKLF activists, including Shakeel Ahmed Bakshi, Tahir Ahmed Mir and Imran Zargar, were wounded in the violent protests.

Many protestors, including women, and policemen also sustained injuries in stone-pelting and teargasing.

A leader of the rival JKLF faction, Javed Mir, was arrested by the authorities at Maisuma when he was leading a demonstration.

UNI

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