Separatists call for shutdown in support of Yasin Malik

Tribune News Service

Srinagar, April 22

Separatist leaders have called for a shutdown across the Kashmir valley on Tuesday to express solidarity with JKLF chief Yasin Malik, whose family has recently claimed that he is ailing in NIA custody.

The call was shutdown was given by the joint resistance leadership, an association of separatist leaders, including Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin.

In a press statement, Geelani and Mirwaiz called for a shutdown across the Valley on Tuesday to protest “the ill-treatment meted out to the ailing and incarcerated” Yasin. The shutdown was also called by Yasin’s group JKLF.

Yasin is in custody of the National Investigation Agency in New Delhi where he is under investigation in a terror-funding case.

The leaders said the shutdown would also be a protest against the “ongoing aggression of the NIA and ED against Kashmiri leaders, activists, senior businessmen and trade union leaders”.