Jammu and Kashmir urged to release teenage protester held in administrative detention

Friday 15 April 2011 Jammu and Kashmir is holding numerous people, including children, in administrative detention after protests in summer 2010. Authorities in India’s Jammu and Kashmir state must immediately end the administrative detention of a child who has been held by police since January, Amnesty International said today. Police arrested 17-year-old Murtaza Manzoor on 21 January 2011 in the state capital Srinagar, and accused him of attempted murder, assault and rioting, based on allegations that he led a June 2010 protest against the Indian government that turned violent and resulted…

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