SRINAGAR — Kashmiri journalist Asif Sultan has been granted bail by a special court in Srinagar in connection with a five-year-old case under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. The case pertains to an incident of rioting at Srinagar’s Central Jail in 2019, when a group of inmates allegedly set fire to a few barracks and […]
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Kashmiri journalist Asif Sultan arrested two days after being released from five-year detention
SRINAGAR — Kashmiri journalist Asif Sultan was arrested on Thursday night, two days after he was released from a five-year detention, PTI reported. Sultan was arrested in connection with a case filed under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, according to The Wire. On Tuesday, the award-winning journalist was released from Uttar Pradesh’s Ambedkar Nagar district […]