But it wasn’t torture alone; Kashmiri women also have to face the burden of navigating India’s tiring legal system to seek the release of their sons
Everyone was home, but afraid. The police were hunting for protesters in the neighbourhood. Mushtaq Ahmad's 13-year-old son, a resident of Noorbagh in Srinagar, could be arrested, so his sister caught hold of him to hide him, trembling, as she saw police barge into her home.
More than two weeks had passed since the Indian government abrogated Article 370 and downsized the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir into to union territories earlier on August 5. The article gave Kashmir a degree of autonomy within the Indian state, but now it will be under the direct rule of the central government with a nominal state legislature.
For Soliha and her family, that day was the worst amidst the enforced clampdown, “I thought my daughter died when I saw her lying on the road,” her mother said. But it wasn’t torture alone. Kashmiri women also have to face the burden of navigating India’s tiring legal system to seek the release of their sons. When the Indian government clamped down on communication in Kashmir, families, and mothers of detainees had to visit several jails to find where their sons had been put up.
“My son is a kid, how can any justice system in the universe put a minor under the Public Safety Act?” she asked. On October 1, the PSA of Shahid was revoked, and he was released on 29th September, two months after his initial detention. Dr Omar Salim, a doctor from Kashmir, protested in August outside a government hospital in Srinagar against the restriction on phones and internet in Jammu and Kashmir. He felt the blackout was preventing patients from receiving government health benefits.
She also harboured fears that the army and police might barge into her home and take her husband when any clashes occur in the area.“I feel like we won’t be allowed to reach the hospital on time,” she said.
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