SRINAGAR, May 20:
Authorities today placed Moderate Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq under house arrest to prevent him from attending a rally proposed for tomorrow to commemorate the death anniversary of his father, who was assassinated in 1990.
“Mirwaiz was placed under house arrest this morning, thus preventing him from attending Hafta Shahadat (martyrdom week) programme,” a Hurriyat spokesman said here.
The moderate Hurriyat Conference had planned a rally at Eidgah to pay tributes to Mirwaiz’s father Moulvi Mohammad Farooq and Hurriyat leader Abdul Gani Lone on their death anniversary tomorrow.
While Farooq was shot dead by militants on May 21, 1990, Lone fell to the bullets of ultras during a commemoration rally for the former on the same day in 2002.
Despite him being place under house arrest, Hurriyat activists today organized a rally from Mirwaiz Manzil at Rajouri Kadal in downtown area of the city. (PTI)
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