Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Yasin Malik was arrested on Friday along with zonal organizer of the outfit Bashir Ahmad Kashmiri.
A police official said Malik has been shifted to central jail in Srinagar. He was arrested from his residence in Maisuma near Lal Chowk this morning.
“Large contingent of police today raided the office of JKLF and arrested Yasin sahib and others,” he said.
Prior to his arrest, Malik told reporters that even tyrant rulers would release inmates on the eve of Eid and other festivals.
“…but new kind of tyrants and oppressors take pleasure from arresting people on these very days,” said Malik.
“Yesterday, an ailing lady Asiya Andrabi was dragged out of hospital and shifted to Jammu jail which shows the ugly tyrant behavior of these new pseudo-democratic oppressors.”
Malik said that atrocities are being committed on Kashmiris to scare them so that resistance against illegal occupation is weakened and defeated.
“It has been a common practice of occupational forces to arrest and stop political activities but the way people are being jailed under black laws actually shows that ruling regime only knows to suppress peaceful voices by military might,” he said.
The JKLF chairman had yesterday visited the residences of slain Hizbul Mujahideen militants Sabzar Ahmed Bhat and Faizan Muzaffar in Tral area of south Kashmir's Pulwama district.
The two militants were killed in an encounter with the security forces in Soimoh area of Tral yesterday.
Malik and chairmen of both factions of Hurriyat Conference, Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, have called for a two-day shutdown in the Valley to protest the killing of the two militants and the use of "brute force" against the protestors.
The separatist trio has also called for a march to Tral on Tuesday to pay tributes to the two militants.
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