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    • Posts Tagged ‘house arrest’

    Separatist Leader Placed Under House Arrest Ahead of Kashmir Rally

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    SRINAGAR: Senior Separatist leader, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, also chairperson of the moderate faction of Jammu and Kashmir’s separatist Hurriyat Conference, was placed under house arrest Monday, a day before the group has called for a march to the Eidgah here. The Mirwaiz’s movements have been restricted to maintain law and order, a police official said. The moderate Hurriyat group has called for a march to the martyrs’ graveyard in Eidgah area to commemorate the death anniversaries of Mirwaiz Muhammad Farooq (the...

    Posted 30 days ago.

    Geelani's Freedom to Remain Curbed: Kashmir Chief

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    SRINAGAR: An end to restrictions imposed on the movement of senior Kashmiri separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani seems unlikely. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has said that the restrictions would stay on Geelani's public functions as "these are followed by violence." "Whenever I had intervened in removing restrictions on his (Geelani's) movement and public speeches, these have invariably been followed by incidents of stone-pelting," Omar told reporters here, according to PTI. The Chief Minister was responding to a...

    Posted 43 days ago.

    Geelani's Prolonged House Arrest in Delhi Worries Kin

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    SRINAGAR: Syed Ali Shah Geelani, chairman of Hurriyat Conference (G), continues to remain under “house arrest” in New Delhi. The senior leader was put under house arrest at his New Delhi residence, soon after parliament attack convict Muhammad Afzal Guru was hanged and buried in Delhi’s Tihar Jail on February 9. Relatives and family members of Geelani have expressed concern over the restrictions imposed upon his movement and contact with outside world. “We are deeply concerned as we have not been able to...

    Posted 115 days ago.

    Ahead of Eid, Kashmir separatists put under house arrest

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    Ashiq Hussain SRINAGAR, Aug 19: All the separatists in Kashmir were swooped-upon by Jammu and Kashmir police on Saturday night which continued till Sunday, a day ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr. In a major crackdown, all the prominent Hurriyat leaders – including Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq , Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Nayeem Ahmed and Yasin Malik – were put under house arrest by the police besides raiding dozens of places across the valley looking for the ground-level workers of...

    Posted 303 days ago.

    Discord at bay, Kashmir Mirwaiz calls for Geelani's release

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    SRINAGAR, Aug 11: Senior separatist leader and chairman of moderate faction of the Hurriyat Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has castigated the authorities for, what he calls, is religious interference by placing his hardline counterpart Syed Ali Shah Geelani under continued house arrest. “Authorities have imposed curbs on Geelani’s religious activities and are even barring him from offering Friday prayers in the holy month of Ramadhan,” he told a massive gathering of worshippers at the historic Jamia Masjid in old...

    Posted 312 days ago.

    Is Kashmi's Geelani under continuous house arrest?

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    Peerzada Ashiq SRINAGAR, Ag 8: Is hardline Hurriyat chairman Syed Ali Shah, who steered the street agitations for three consecutive years since 2008 till 2010, under continuous house arrest in Srinagar? Police say no but Hurriyat says yes. “Police claim that I am not under house arrest is nothing but a bundle of lies,” said visible angry Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Wednesday at his Srinagar residence in Hyderpora area. The 82-year-old separatist leader is incensed by the police denial...

    Posted 314 days ago.

    BJP MP to challenge Geelani's house arrest in court

    Ram Jethmalani

    SRINAGAR, Aug 4: Noted lawyer and Member of Parliament from right-wing Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) Ram Jethmalani has offered to try quashing the house arrest of senior separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani. Jethmalani met Geelani at his Hyderpora residence in Srinagar and offered to challenge his house arrest in the Supreme Court. "Jethmalani expressed surprise over the continuous house arrest of Geelani without any written order and said he will challenge this," Hurriyat spokesperson Ayaz Akbar said. The lawyer...

    Posted 318 days ago.