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Q&A with Kashmiri politician, Shehla Rashid, charged with sedition in India

Shehla Rashid

In late August TRT World spoke to Shehla Rashid, a pro-India politician with the Jammu and Kashmir People’s Movement, who has criticised India’s revocation of Kashmir’s autonomous status. Today, New Delhi police filed multiple cases against her.
You tweeted about the Indian army’s excesses in Kashmir’s Shopian [an area in southern Kashmir with a reputation for resistance], which was based on what you heard from someone who had returned from the Valley. What was the purpose of that tweet?