Srinagar: Police today detained some JKLF leaders and activists when they were assembling in Abi Guzar area of Srinagar to hold protest demonstration as announced by joint separatist leadership.
A JKLF spokesman in a statement said that Zonal president Noor Muhammad Kalwal, zonal vice president Muhammad Yasin Butt along with activists, Muhammad Haneef Dar, Imtiyaz Ahmad Ganaie and Imtiyaz Ahmad Shah were arrested by police when they were assembling to hold a peaceful protest against killings in Kashmir.
“Despite police crackdown, JKLF leaders and activists led by zonal general secretary Sheikh Abdul Rashid managed to gather at Masjid Shareef Abi-Guzar where they staged a peaceful protest against Shopian massacre,” the spokesman said.
The statement said that while condemning the spree of killings, police highhandedness and oppression unleashed against protesting students, JKLF incarcerated chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik has said that rulers and their police have actually crossed every limit of highhandedness and hell bent to trample every voice of dissent by military might.
JKLF chairman while condemning the Shopian massacre, pellet and bullet attacks across the valley, said that Kashmiri resilience and steadfastness has shaken the oppressors and whatever is being done by police today is a glaring evidence of the frustration rulers and their forces are suffering from.
Malik strongly condemned the police oppression unleashed against students across valley yesterday and said that peaceful protest is birth right of every human being.
