Arrests – Journalists

The Jammu and Kashmir State Investigation Agency on Sunday arrested a PhD scholar from Budgam district for a “highly provocative and seditious” article in the online magazine The Kashmir Walla. “Abdul Aala Fazili’s article, ‘The shackles of slavery will break’, is intended to create unrest in Jammu and Kashmir, and written with the purpose of abetting the youth to take the path of violence by glorifying terrorism,” the police said in a statement.

The article promoted a false narrative to sustain a secessionist and terrorist campaign aimed at breaking India’s territorial integrity, the police added. Fazili was booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. He was arrested after the State Investigation Agency conducted searches at the office of The Kashmir Walla in Rajbagh area of Srinagar and the houses detained editor-in-chief Fahad Shah and Fazili.