New Delhi, Aug. 25 -- A massive sit-in protest is underway at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, to mark six years of incarceration of Baramulla Member of Parliament, Engineer Rashid.

Hundreds of supporters, activists, and sympathisers gathered carrying placards and banners demanding the immediate release of AIP President and MP Baramulla Er Rashid and other Kashmiris languishing in different jails across the country and Jammu & Kashmir.

Protestors raised slogans calling the detention of Er Rashid an "assault on democracy," stressing that keeping a democratically elected MP behind bars undermines the very mandate of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.

Carrying posters reading "Prison walls cannot silence people's mandate" and "When leaders are jai...