Kashmiri journalist and The Kashmir Walla editor Fahad Shah walked out of the jail today after nearly two years of incarceration – a week after the Jammu and Kashmir High Court granted him bail in a case involving a purported “seditious” article he wrote 13 years ago.
Shah was arrested in February 2022, and booked for a series of terror charges under the UAPA and the Public Safety Act. While the Kashmiri journalist was granted bail in two cases in April this year – with the high court stating that his detention “did not sustain the test of law” – he had continued to remain in jail in the UAPA case.
