Kashmiri journalist Aasif Sultan who was arrested last month by the Jammu and Kashmir Police has been sent to Central Jail Srinagar in judicial custody until September 22. R
eports said that a court in Srinagar while hearing his bail plea sent him to judicial custody until September 22. Sultan, who works with a local news magazine, was formally arrested last week after “six-day detention” at a police station in Batmaloo area of Srinagar.
Several journalists’ bodies including ‘Reporters Without Borders’ and International Federation of Journalists” have called for his immediate release.