{"id":5336,"date":"2016-10-01T17:17:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T11:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=5336"},"modified":"2016-10-01T17:17:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T11:47:23","slug":"police-arrest-sarjan-barkati-alias-freedom-chacha-slapped-psa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=5336","title":{"rendered":"Police Arrest Sarjan Barkati Alias \u2018Freedom Chacha\u2019, Slapped with PSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Srinagar:<\/strong>\u00a0Police on Saturday arrested Ummat-e-Islami senior leader Moulana Sarjan Barkati at Wanpoh while he was on way to Arwani.<\/p>\n<p>Barkati is a popular Muslim cleric from Shopian district and a senior leader of Ummat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir, headed by Mirwaiz Qazi Yasir.<\/p>\n<p>Barkati was immediately booked under notorious Public Safety Act (PSA), a statement issued by Ummat-e-Islami said this evening.<\/p>\n<p>Barkati was instrumental in organizing public rallies across South Kashmir in the on-going civilian uprising. He popularized \u201cnew forms of anti-India sloganeering\u201d that went viral across Kashmir. Since his peculiar way of sloganeering, he is popular among youth as \u201cFreedom Chacha\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Police had been conducting raids on Barkati\u2019s house in Shopian. \u201cThe police have also ceased his property and threatened the inmates including his six year old son, Azaan Barkati,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The incarcerated Chairperson of Ummat-e-Islami Mirwaiz Qazi Yasir strongly condemned his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson quoted Mirwaiz Yasir saying: \u201cThe on-going rant of war in India is only to divert attention from the grave human rights violations and the on-going civilian uprising in Kashmir that has made state government to resort to such tactics like mass arrest of people and slapping draconian Public Safety Act on them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar:\u00a0Police on Saturday arrested Ummat-e-Islami senior leader Moulana Sarjan Barkati at Wanpoh while he was on way to Arwani. Barkati is a popular Muslim cleric from Shopian district and a senior leader of Ummat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir, headed by Mirwaiz Qazi Yasir. Barkati was immediately booked under notorious Public Safety Act (PSA), a statement issued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5336","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=5336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}