Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti addresses a news conference in Srinagar, June 19, 2018.
They were among thousands of people detained when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist-led government stripped Jammu and Kashmir of semi-autonomy and statehood, downgrading them into two federal territories last August. He said Omar Abdullah had remarked that ending Kashmir’s autonomy would cause an earthquake that would separate Kashmir from India, though there is no indication Abdullah made any such statement.
They are considered pro-India as they never supported Muslim-majority Kashmir’s independence from India or its merger with Pakistan.They are the top leaders of the National Conference, the party that has governed the India-administered Kashmir for decades since India and Pakistan won independence from British colonialists in 1947 and soon began fighting over control over Kashmir, a Himalayan region spread over both countries.
Amnesty International has called the Public Safety Act a "lawless law" and rights groups say India has used it to stifle dissent and circumvent the criminal justice system, undermining accountability, transparency and respect for human rights."Shocked and devastated by the cruel invocation of the Public Safety Act against Omar Abdullah, Mehbooba Mufti and others," said P Chidambaram, a top party leader.
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