Police arrest Yasin Malik and house arrest Mirwaiz
As JRL was scheduled to hold a press conference today, police has arrested Yasin Malik and have put Mirwaiz Umar Farooq under house detention. JRL leaders recently held a meeting at Hyderpora residence of Geelani in which they said that people of J&K cannot watch silently while the government forces were killing innocent people in the name of operations. Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said that they will give a program to the public to withstand what he called state terrorism.with detentions of JRL leaders and Geelani already under house detention, the scheduled press conference cannot be held.