July 21, 2002	Sunday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 10,1423

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SRINAGAR, July 20: Indian police detained a leader of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference on Saturday and put several others under house arrest after a protest against last week’s massacre of 28 people in held Jammu.

Javid Mir, a leader of the APHC, was detained as he led hundreds of demonstrators in Srinagar in protest over the gun and grenade attack in a slum last weekend.

Indian authorities rearrested another senior Kashmiri leader, Yasin Malik, after a court granted him bail, his lawyer said.

Yasin Malik, chief of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, was rearrested under India’s public safety act, shortly after a court released him on bail.

Malik’s lawyer, B.L. Chatta, said the court had granted his client bail because the prosecution failed to charge him within the 90-day time limit set by a new anti-terrorism law. Malik, who has a heart condition, was first arrested on March 25.

“His health was also deteriorating, keeping in view all these things, he was granted bail as a matter of right,” he said.

Abdul Gani Bhat, the chairman of Hurriyat, and two other senior leaders were placed under house arrest after the protest.

Police fired teargas and used batons to disperse the demonstrators in Srinagar.

“Stop state-supported terrorism,” protesters shouted as police broke up the protest.

In a statement, Hurriyat demanded well-known international organizations conduct the investigation into the Jammu massacre.—Reuters