Tag: Aasif Sultan

Srinagar : Two days after Kashmiri journalist Asif Sultan was released from a five-year detention, he has been rearrested here in another case, officials said on Friday, March 1. “Sultan was rearrested late Thursday night,” the officials said. He was first arrested in an Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act case in September 2018 when he was working as a reporter with a local magazine. Asif Sultan's initial arrest took place in 2018, raising widespread concerns about the stifling of journalistic freedom in the conflict-ridden area. He was detained under the Public Safety Act...