{"id":198496,"date":"2026-04-16T17:08:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=198496"},"modified":"2026-04-16T19:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:30:22","slug":"mirwaiz-urges-indian-govt-to-release-er-rashid-on-humanitarian-grounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2026\/04\/16\/mirwaiz-urges-indian-govt-to-release-er-rashid-on-humanitarian-grounds.html","title":{"rendered":"Mirwaiz urges Indian govt to release Er Rashid on humanitarian grounds"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Srinagar: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, All Parties Hurriyat Conference senior leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has urged the Indian government to release member of Lok Sabha, lower house of Indian parliament, from Baramulla Sheikh Abdul Rashid on humanitarian grounds and allow him to visit his ailing father.<br \/><br \/>According to Kashmir Media Service, Sheikh Abdul Rashid is currently lodged in Tihar jail, New Delhi, in a Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) case. He was arrested in 2019 and successfully contested Lok Sabha elections while being behind bars.<br \/><br \/>&#8220;Visited the critically ill father of incarcerated MP Engineer Rasheed admitted at SMHS in Srinagar, yearning to see his son lodged in Tihar jail for a meeting which could be their last,&#8221; Mirwaiz said in a post on X.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, All Parties Hurriyat Conference senior leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has urged the Indian government to release member of Lok Sabha, lower house of Indian parliament, from Baramulla Sheikh Abdul Rashid on humanitarian grounds and allow him to visit his ailing father.According to Kashmir Media Service, Sheikh Abdul &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":197746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-occupied-jammu-and-kashmir"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/04\/Mirwaiz-Umar-Farooq-1200x667-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198496","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=198496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198515,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198496\/revisions\/198515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}