Protecting Kashmiris.

Hurriyet leader Yasin Malik's hospitalisation as a result of his hunger strike in incarceration is only further evidence of the injustice being meted out to the Kashmiri leader due to his stance against Indian oppression. Malik has been on a hunger strike since Friday, after the Indian state ignored his plea to be allowed to face his trials in Jammu in person.

The demand being made is not altogether unreasonable, especially since the Kashmiri leader has maintained his innocence in both cases where is the primary accused individual. One of them pertains to a kidnapping while the other involves the alleged killing of Indian Air Force officials. Both cases are thirty years old, which is why the sudden ruling against Malik and the way in which the appeals process has been handled indicates that these are hardly the open-and-shut cases that the Indian state claims they are.

It is no secret that the Modi government has increased its attempts to marginalise the people of Kashmir and their leaders to the point of breaking any resistance efforts against...