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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
Suchitra Mohanty and Fayaz Bukhari

Indian court orders life in jail for top Kashmiri separatist

Yasin Malik, chairman of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), a separatist party, is escorted by Indian police officers at a court premises in New Delhi, India, May 25, 2022. REUTERS/Shashi Shekhar Kashyap

An Indian court on Wednesday ordered life in jail for Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik for funding "terrorist" activities and many other charges, prompting street protests outside his residence and condemnation from Pakistan's prime minister.

Malik, head of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), had pleaded guilty to the charges but on Wednesday told the special court where his trial was held that he had been practising non-violent politics in Kashmir after giving up arms in the 1990s.

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