Srinagar: Questions slapping of sedition charges on three Kashmiri AMU students for offering prayers in absentia for Manan Wani, the PhD scholar turned militant commander who killed in Kupwara on Thursday last, Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (M) Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Sunday asked government of India to stop ‘harassing’ Kashmiri students.
“The crackdown on youth & activists as they are arrested right left and centre & slapping draconian PSA on them reflects that the iron fist policy will continue, On the other hand Sedition charges slapped on Kashmiri students as they are dismissed for offering nimaz e jinaza of their senior shaheed Manan Wani by AMU! Is offering nimaz e jinaza a crime in India now? Stop harassment of Kashmiri students!” Mirwaiz said in tweet.
He also strongly denounced the “authoritarian & vindictive” arrest of Hurriyat leader Masroor Abbas Ansari “as the state’s election drama has flopped!”
