SRINAGAR – Over 10,000 Kashmiris including hundreds of political leadersand workers have been detained. The authorities have put almost allHurriyat leaders, including Syed Ali Gilani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, underhouse arrest or in jails.
Illegally detained Kashmiri journalist, Aasif Sultan was granted the PressFreedom Award by American National Press Club.
He was arrested on 28th of August last year on fake charges and is stillimprisoned in an Indian jail.
Media reports said that a 33-year-old Indian Civil Service officer, KannanGopinathan, has resigned from the government job stating that he wasdisturbed over the lockdown in Jammu and Kashmir.
In his resignation, he said there is denial of fundamental rights to tensof thousands of people in Kashmir for weeks.