Resistance Group exempted lawyers from shutdown Archives

Resistance leaders in the Kashmir valley today exempted lawyers from the two-day shutdown later this week. Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik, the three separatist leaders who have been issuing weekly protest and shutdown calendars for the past several months, in a joint statement exempted the lawyers from the shutdown scheduled on Friday and Saturday. The separatist trio said there were “thousands of habeas corpus cases pending for hearing”. “In view of the winter vacation of the courts, lawyers are requested to help out the cases of these…