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Jammu: Aala Fazili, a Kashmiri journalist and PhD scholar, has been released from Kot Bhalwal jail in Jammu after spending three years in unlawful imprisonment. Fazili’s release follows a court order granting him bail.
According to a statement by Kashmir Media Service, the court in Jammu granted bail to Fazili, who was arrested by Indian police for allegedly writing a seditious article in a Srinagar-based digital news outlet in 2011. The additional sessions judge in Jammu ordered Fazili’s release on February 8.
Fazili, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Kashmir, was detained by the State Investigation Agency on April 17, 2022, for authoring the article titled “The Shackles of Slavery will Break.” Following the court’s decision, Fazili was released and returned home, his brother Sami Fazili confirmed to the media.
The release of Fazili comes more than 15 months after Fahad Shah, the editor of The Kashmir Walla, was granted bail by the high court of the occupied territory. Shah was also arrested by the State Investigation Agency in connection with the same article.
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