Pakistan-Occupied-Kashmir: AWP leader Baba Jan released from prison, reunited with family after nine years
India, Nov. 30 -- Awami Workers Party leader Baba Jan was released recently from prison after spending nine years behind the bar on charges of rioting during a 2011 protest over the Attabad Lake disaster.
Jan reunited with his family after nine years.
He reportedly thanked people of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and rights activists for holding protests for his release.
On January 4, 2010, at least 20 people died in a landslide that blocked the Hunza River, creating the Attabad lake that gradually expanded 23 kilometres upstream, submerging four villages - Ainabad, Shishkat, Gulmit and Gulkin, reports Geo News.
The landslide had also blocked the Karakoram Highway, a vital trade link to China, cutting off 26,000 people in the Upper Hunza V...
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