SRINAGAR: Authorities on Tuesday prevented Hurriyat (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani from marching towards Lal Chowk “by locking the main gate from outside”, said a spokesman.
“Geelani was not allowed to move out of his “jail-cum-residence” when according to the already published program, he was scheduled to march towards Lal Chowk to express solidarity and lead a protest march against the Kulgam carnage”, he said.
The spokesman said that a large contingent of police was deployed in and around the residence of chairman and they locked the main gate from outside and didn’t allow anybody in or out.
Geelani, he said, has strongly condemned this “arrogant and inhuman police action.”
“In the world’s largest and heavily militarized zone of Jammu and Kashmir, people are not even allowed to breathe freely. Their voice is choked and their human needs are curbed on the pretext of security,” the spokesman quoted Geelani as having said.
He said that innocent lives are snatched by the barrel of a gun and then people are not allowed to mourn these deaths.
Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) had called for a sit-in at Lal Chowk today to protest the killing of seven civilians in a blast in Laroo village of Kulgam on Sunday.