SRINAGAR (India), May 25 (AFP): A former militant and campaigner for Kashmir independence was sentenced to life imprisonment on terrorism charges Wednesday by an Indian court.
Mohammad Yasin Malik renounced violence in 1994 to campaign peacefully for the "liberation" of Kashmir, which has been split between India and Pakistan since 1947 and which both claim in full.
Last week an Indian court convicted the 56-year-old, who has spent years in prison and has been in custody since 2019, of terrorism and funding acts of terror.
The National Investi-gation Agency, India's top anti-terrorism investigation body, had asked that Malik be given the death sentence, but the court instead sentenced him to life.
India jails Kashmir independence leader for life
FE Team | Published: May 25, 2022 22:12:08
India jails Kashmir independence leader for life
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