Kashmiri man demanding son’s body charged under anti-terror law
Al JazeeraPolice charge seven people, including father of teenager killed by government forces, under the stringent UAPA law. But Ather’s father Mushtaq Ahmed Wani says his son’s killing was a cold-blooded “fake encounter”, a popular term used to explain extrajudicial killings by the security forces. ‘World must see this oppression’ Wani on Monday told Al Jazeera he, along with his two brothers, three other relatives and the imam of a local mosque, “have been booked for demanding the body of his son” under the Unlawful Activities Act or UAPA. “If the police does this to a mourning father who just wants his son’s grave near his home, the world must see this oppression.” Wani said they came to know about the UAPA case after some village elders were called to the police station and the imam was detained. A senior police official confirmed to Al Jazeera that “seven people have been booked under UAPA” including the boy’s father.
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