Sajad Lone released from home detention, says �jail experience this time was psychologically draining�

Srinagar | 31 July, 2020

Almost a year after he was detained in the wake of the abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019, People�s Conference chairman and former state minister Sajad Lone was released from house arrest on Friday.
Lone took to Twitter to announce his release and said that jail was not a new experience for him but the latest one was psychologically draining. �Finally 5 days short of a year I have been officially informed that I am a free man. So much has changed. So have I. Jail was not a new experience. Earlier ones were harsh with usual doses of physical torture. But this was psychologically draining. Much to share hopefully soon,� he tweeted. This was his first tweet after August 5, 2019.
On February 6 this year, Lone, along with PDP youth wing president Waheed Parra, was shifted from the MLAs hostel to their residences, where they remained under house arrest.
Lone was among several politicians, lawyers, businessmen, and activists in the Valley who were placed under detention after Centre revoked Article 370 and scrapped the special status to Jammu and Kashmir.