All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Democratic Freedom Party chief Shabir Ahmad Shah were put under house arrest while Javed Ahmad Mir, Sheikh Abdul Aziz, Bashir Bhat, Tahir Mir and Ghulam Nabi Saumji were among 100 Kashmiris arrested during demonstrations on Friday against abuses by Indian troops. They were demonstrating in connection with the International Human Rights Day, police and witnesses said. Geelani was informed about the restrictions on his movement outside his Hyderpura house on Friday morning as he was planning to lead a protest march against the alleged human rights violations in Kashmir, sources said. Geelani was also prohibited from leaving his house for the day at Rawalpura on the outskirts of the city, they said Javed Mir, who heads recently floated Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Forum, was detained at Lambert lane in Srinagar as he was leading a demonstration, the sources said. He was lodged at Kothibagh Police Station, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.
For the first time since the beginning of the struggle against Indian rule in 1989, activists from Kashmir's biggest and pro-India party also demonstrated against rights violations. Over 100 members of the National Conference party, led by two Kashmir lawmakers, staged a noisy march in Srinagar. "Down with state terrorism", they chanted. "We want (an) end to human rights violations." 
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