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21 August 2019At least 2,300 people, mostly young men, are detained in Kashmir administered by India during a security blockade and a communications blackout, imposed to reduce the unrest after New Delhi revoked the autonomy of the region contention with Pakistan.
Those arrested included anti-India protesters and pro-India leaders from Kashmir, locked up in prisons or other improvised facilities. Nearly 100 people have been arrested under the law on public safety, which allows them to be held up for two years without trial. Thousands of Indian troops have been sent to the Kashmir valley, one of the most militarized regions in the world, to control the checkpoints. Telephone communications, mobile phone coverage, broadband internet services and cable TV were interrupted, although they were gradually restored in some places. Most of the arrests took place in Srinagar, the main city of Kashmir and the heart of a movement that for 30 years has been trying to oust India with a Hindu majority from the predominantly Muslim region, so that it can be independently or merge with Pakistan.