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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Kashmiri activist Khurram Parvez and journalist Irfan Mehraj freed on bail, under tight curbs

India Kashmir Activist Freed - (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

A prominent Kashmiri human rights activist and a renowned journalist have been released on bail after years of imprisonment on allegations of financing terrorism in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir.

Rights activist Khurram Parvez and independent journalist Irfan Mehraj were arrested in 2021 and 2023 respectively, under India's terror laws. Despite their release from a New Delhi jail late Wednesday, both remain under tight court-imposed restrictions as the country’s federal counterterror agency seeks to reverse the ruling.

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