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Jailed Hurriyat leader Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai died on Wednesday, 5 May 2021, due to multiple illnesses, at the Government Medical College, Jammu. He was serving jail-time at the Jammu District Jail under the Public Safety Act (PSA), which allows preventive detention of individuals for up to two years without trial.
The death of the pro-Pakistan separatist leader in Kashmir is likely to raise fresh tensions in the Kashmir Valley, and also test the reaffirmation of the 2003 ceasefire deal between India and Pakistan, that saw both sparring countries dialling down border skirmishes along the Line of Control (LoC), and embarking on a series of peace initiatives.