Hurrriyat leader Geelani arrested for leading violent protests in Srinagar

September 11th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Barely a day after his release, hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani was placed under house arrest here late Thursday evening, a police official said Friday. Geelani was placed under house arrest in Srinagar as a preventive measure, the official said.

September 11th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Jammu and Kashmir police on Friday placed leader of the hardline faction of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) under house arrest as a preventive measure. The arrest was ordered to prevent protests against Indian rule during Friday prayers.

September 9th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Senior hardline Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani, chairman of the breakaway Hurriyat group, was released by authorities late Wednesday. Geelani's release from detention came after the state high court Tuesday quashed the Public Safety Act (PSA) under which he was detained.

July 25th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Separatists in Kashmir gave a shutdown call on Saturday in protest against the detention of their leaders. Separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani was on Tuesday booked under the Public Safety Act (PSA) for calling "frequent strikes and protests" in the valley.

July 21st, 2009 SRINAGAR - Separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani was Tuesday booked under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA), an official here said. The head of the hardline faction of the Hurriyat Conference has been under detention since June, when he spearheaded the agitation against the rape and murder of two women in south Kashmir's Shopian district.

July 9th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Jammu and Kashmir police has arrested over 320 people in the valley for allegedly indulging in rioting, including seven people charged under the Public Safety Act. The state police had chalked out a list of anti-social elements, who had been disturbing peace in various districts of the valley, before carrying out raids on Wednesday night that lasted till early this morning.

June 17th, 2009 SRINAGAR - A group of women activists under the banner of a separatist group took out a protest march in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, over the alleged rape and murder of two young women at Shopian and also in opposition to the presence of armed forces in the Kashmir valley. Led by Farida Behanjee, Chairperson of Jammu and Kashmir Mass Movement (JKMM), the group marched down the streets of Srinagar shouting slogans and demanding immediate arrest of the guilty.

June 8th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Normal life remained paralysed and violent protests continued unabated in the Kashmir Valley for the eighth day Monday as six more people, including four civilians, were injured in the fresh wave of unrest over the alleged rape and murder of two women. Educational institutions, banks, government offices, shops and other businesses in the entire valley remained closed for the eighth consecutive day Monday.

June 4th, 2009 SRINAGAR - A 25-year-old succumbed to his injuries here Thursday, three days after being hit by a tearsmoke shell, triggering fresh protests in Srinagar amid continuing security restrictions in the old city areas. Nisar Ahmed Bhat had been battling for life in the Soura medical institute here after sustaining a serious head injury Monday evening.

June 3rd, 2009 SRINAGAR - In a grim reminder of last summer's agitation in Jammu and Kashmir, normal life and business were hit for the third day Wednesday in the valley, as shutdown and violent protests against the alleged rape and murder of two women last week showed no let up. The volatile situation that has engulfed the entire Kashmir Valley is feared to linger on as senior separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani called for an "indefinite strike" till Kashmir is demilitarised.

May 29th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Jammu and Kashmir police had to resort to cane-charging on Friday to quell violent separatists staging a protest rally against recent attacks by the Taliban militants in Pakistan. Syed Ali Shah Geelani, a hard-liner Kashmiri leader, who favours conditional accession of Kashmir to Pakistan, courted arrest amid the protestors shouting anti-government slogans.

May 19th, 2009 SRINAGAR - The alleged killing of a civilian in the police custody triggered a massive protest here on Tuesday. According to the local media reports, Manzoor Ahmad Beg, 35, allegedly died during an interrogation by the Special Operations Group on Monday.

May 16th, 2009 SRINAGAR - At least nine persons were injured here after police fired teargas shells to disperse stone-pelting protesters demanding release of jailed leaders during the Parliament elections. Syed Ali Shah Geelani, chairman of hardline faction of separatist All Parties Hurriyat (freedom) Conference (APHC) has been calling for protests.

May 6th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Normal life in the Kashmir Valley was crippled Wednesday by the 50-hour long shutdown, called by separatists to keep people away from the polls Thursday. Voting in Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency is to be held Thursday amid a boycott call by separatist leaders and threat to voters by Pakistan-based militant groups - the United Jehad Council and the Lashkar-e-Taiba.

April 24th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Senior separatist leaders, including head of the moderate faction of the Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, were Friday placed under house arrest to avoid 'law and order problems', police in this summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir said. While the Mirwaiz was restrained by security forces from moving out of his Nageen residence, Syed Ali Geelani, chief of the hardline faction of the Hurriyat, was placed under house arrest in his uptown Hyderpora residence.