Sultan, a journalist with a now-closed monthly news magazine, was arrested in a case under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA in 2018. After bail in that case last year, he was booked under PSA.
Fahad Shah, founding editor of The Kashmir Walla, an independent news outlet in Indian-administered Kashmir, was accused of publishing “anti-national content” and arrested under the country’s anti-terror and colonial-era sedition laws in February 2022.
journalist Fahad Shah was arrested under UAPA in connection with the publication of an alleged seditious article in now defunct The Kashmir Walla in 2011