(Riya Saha, Intern Journalist) SRINAGAR: Sajad Lone, People’s Conference chairman, and former state minister has been released from house arrest after 360 days. He was detained in the wake of the revocation of Article 370 in August 2019.
Lone took to Twitter to announce his release and said that jail was not a new experience for him but the latest one was psychologically draining. “Finally 5 days short of a year I have been officially informed that I am a free man. So much has changed. So have I. Jail was not a new experience. Earlier ones were harsh with usual doses of physical torture. But this was psychologically draining. Much to share hopefully soon,” he tweeted. This was his first tweet after August 5, 2019.
On February 6 this year, Lone, along with PDP youth wing president Waheed Parra, was shifted from the MLAs hostel to their residences, where they remained under house arrest.
Lone was among several politicians, lawyers, businessmen, and activists in the Valley who were placed under detention after Centre nullified Article 370 which guarantees special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.
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