Srinagar, March 24: A Delhi court has sentenced Kashmiri separatist leader Asiya Andrabi to life imprisonment for running a terrorist organisation. Her associates, Sofi Fehmeeda and Nahida Nasreen, have been sentenced to 30 years in prison each.
The court convicted them under sections 18 (Punishment for conspiracy) and 38 (Offence relating to membership of a terrorist organisation) of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). They were found guilty of waging war against the country and promoting secessionist ideology.
Asiya Andrabi, founder of the women’s organisation Dukhtaran-e-Millat (DeM), was arrested in April 2018. The organisation was subsequently banned under the UAPA.
