Wednesday 3rd Jun, 2026
Srinagar: Zonal organizer of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Bashir Ahmad Kashmiri who was in police custody from 12th December 2018 has been booked under black law Public Safety Act (PSA) and shifted to Kot-Balwal Jail on Wednesday.
JKLF spokesperson in a statement said that JKLF zonal organizer was arrested by police for organizing peaceful candle light protests against human rights violations in Jammu Kashmir. He was charged under various acts and finally when he got bail in all cases, police today booked him under PSA and immediately shifted him to Kot-Balwal Jail. He was shifted to jail from Maisuma police station and even his family that is residing only a few minutes away from the said police station was not informed by police.
Terming his arrest, execution of PSA on him and shifting him to Jammu without any prior information to his family as arbitrary, oppressive and revengeful, JKLF Chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik said that only crime that Bashir Ahmad Kashmiri committed is that he was promoting peaceful struggle and participated in a most refined, internationally well-established peaceful candlelight protests at the eve of international human rights day.