{"id":38238,"date":"2021-05-16T14:59:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T09:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=38238"},"modified":"2021-05-16T14:59:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T09:29:55","slug":"kashmir-an-open-air-prison-where-peoples-thoughts-are-being-monitored-mehbooba-mufti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=38238","title":{"rendered":"Kashmir an open air prison where people\u2019s thoughts are being monitored: Mehbooba Mufti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, May 16: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti while reacting over the arrest of a Kashmir Artist for his pro-Palestine graffiti Sunday said that \u2018expressing solidarity with Palestine is no crime.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>In a series of tweets, Peoples Democratic Party President Mehbooba Mufti said that: \u201cPeople all over the world are protesting against the atrocities committed by Israel on Palestine. But in Kashmir its a punishable offence where an artist is booked under PSA &amp; a preacher is arrested simply for expressing solidarity with Palestinians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pertinently, Jammu and Kashmir Police have arrested an artist Mudasir Gul and 20 others during raids for drawing pro-Palestine paintings in Padshahi Bagh area of Srinagar city.<\/p>\n<p>Mehbooba Mufti further wrote that: \u201cKashmir is an open air prison where people\u2019s thoughts are being monitored &amp; they are punished for it. There is no outlet left to express one\u2019s opinion &amp; this is a deliberate attempt to push Kashmiris to the wall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cPSA is GOI\u2019s go to method for every problem. Latest example being Ashraf Sehrai\u2019s sons who lost their father in custody due to inadequate medical care &amp; have been arrested under PSA. In rest of India dead are being ill-treated but in Kashmir its the living who are made to suffer,\u201d she tweeted. (KNT)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, May 16: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti while reacting over the arrest of a Kashmir Artist for his pro-Palestine graffiti Sunday said that \u2018expressing solidarity with Palestine is no crime.\u2019 In a series of tweets, Peoples Democratic Party President Mehbooba Mufti said that: \u201cPeople all over the world are protesting against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}