The BJP-led Modi administration in India has blocked or withheld Mushaal Hussein Mullick’s Twitter handle, wife of incarcerated Kashmiri Hurriyat leader Yasin Malik.
Mushaal Hussein Mullick herself announced this.
She claimed that her Twitter account had been withheld/blocked in India and IIOJK for speaking out for her oppressed people of Kashmir under Indian occupation and that her husband, Kashmiri independence leader Yasin Malik, had been incarcerated in response to a court demand.
Yasin Malik is a Kashmiri separatist leader and former militant who advocates the separation of Kashmir from both India and Pakistan. He is the Chairman of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front, which originally spearheaded armed militancy in the Kashmir Valley.
Malik renounced violence in 1994 and adopted peaceful methods to come to a settlement of the Kashmir conflict. In May 2022, Malik pleaded guilty to charges of criminal conspiracy and waging war against the state and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Yasin Malik was born on 3 April 1966 in the densely populated Maisuma locality of Srinagar. His father Ghulam Qadir Malik (1937–2012) died due to a cardiac arrest on 14 May 2012, while Yasin was on a visit to Pakistan.
He has three sisters, including Amina Malik who has advocated for better prisoner’s rights for Malik at the Tihar Jail.
Malik states that, as a young boy, he had witnessed violence carried out on the streets by the security forces. In 1980, after witnessing an altercation between the army and taxi drivers, he is said to have become a rebel.
He established the Tala Party, a revolutionary front that printed, disseminated, and caused a commotion with political materials.
His organization attempted to disrupt the 1983 cricket match between West Indies and Pakistan at the Sher-i-Kashmir Stadium, disrupted National Conference events in Srinagar, and protested the death of Maqbool Bhat. After being jailed for four months, Malik was arrested.
