Syed Ali Geelani still under house confinement

5 Dariya News (Rouf Pampori,Yawar Shafi )

Srinagar 30-Jun-2014

From the last 75 days, the senior separatist leader and Chairman Huriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Geelani continues to remain under the house arrest with the amalgam stating that the octogenarian has missed 11 consecutive Friday prayers.Reports have informed KNS that the state authorities had placed curbs on Geelani’s movement April 16 when the hawk returned from Delhi after a month.Geelani on that day addressed the gathering wherein he issued the poll boycott call against the LS election in the state. Geelani at that time had also hailed people for protesting against the conduction of election rallies in valley’s various areas.Authorities later placed Geelani under house arrest deploying the police personnel outside the gate of his Hyderpora residence.

The Huriyat (G) stated that the senior separatist leader since April 16 continues to remain under house confinement with the government here caring little about the health condition of the aged separatist leader.  The spokesman had in the earlier issued statement maintained that due to the house detention Syed Ali Geelani has been denied to offer the congregational Friday prayers for the 11th time in 2014.

Reports have also informed that since June 23 when a youth in Sopore was killed during the firing, the government has put curbs on the movement of several Huriyat (G) leaders including Mohammad Ashraf Sehraie, Ayaz Akbar and Altaf Ahmad Shah. The trio continues to remain under the house arrest from the last seven days. (KNS)