{"id":182050,"date":"2025-08-25T12:10:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T07:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=182050"},"modified":"2025-08-25T12:10:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T07:10:34","slug":"protesters-in-delhi-demand-release-of-er-rasheed-other-kashmiri-detainees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/08\/25\/protesters-in-delhi-demand-release-of-er-rasheed-other-kashmiri-detainees.html","title":{"rendered":"Protesters in Delhi demand release of Er Rasheed, other Kashmiri detainees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-182051\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/08\/8-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p>New Delhi: A massive sit-in protest was held at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi to mark six years of illegal incarceration of jailed Baramulla Member of Parliament and Awami Ittehad Party President, Engineer Abdul Rasheed and other Kashmiri political prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0Kashmir Media Service, hundreds of supporters, civil society activists, and sympathisers carrying placards and banners demanded the immediate release of Er Rasheed along with other Kashmiris imprisoned in different jails across India and occupied Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters termed Rasheed\u2019s continued detention an assault on democracy, saying that keeping an elected representative behind bars amounts to denying the people of Jammu and Kashmir their political voice. They raised slogans and carried posters reading, \u201cPrison walls cannot silence people\u2019s mandate\u201d and \u201cWhen leaders are jailed, democracy fails.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speakers at the sit-in, including noted Delhi-based peace activist O.P. Shah, said six years of incarceration despite Rasheed\u2019s parliamentary mandate was a travesty of justice. They urged the Indian government to release him immediately.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrators reaffirmed that the sit-in was a strong message of solidarity with all Kashmiri political prisoners, amplifying the call for justice, democracy, and human rights in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: A massive sit-in protest was held at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi to mark six years of illegal incarceration of jailed Baramulla Member of Parliament and Awami Ittehad Party President, Engineer Abdul Rasheed and other Kashmiri political prisoners. According to\u00a0Kashmir Media Service, hundreds of supporters, civil society activists, and sympathisers carrying placards and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":182051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}