J&K Court Grants Bail to Scholar Jailed for 3 Years over ‘Seditious Article’
Jehangir Ali | 13 February 2025 | The Wire
Srinagar: A court in Jammu has granted bail to a Kashmiri scholar nearly three years after he was arrested by J&K Police for allegedly writing a ‘seditious’ article in a Srinagar-based digital news outlet in 2011.
The court of additional sessions judge in Jammu on February 8 ordered the release of Aala Fazili, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Kashmir, who was arrested by J&K Police’s State Investigation Agency (SIA) on April 17, 2022 for the article titled “The Shackles of Slavery will Break”….