12 Facts About Shabir Shah

In December 2021, it was reported that Shabir Shah was "gravely ill" in prison.

In 1998, Shabir Shah formed Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party that advocates about Self determination of Kashmiri people.

Shabir Shah was arrested for the first time in 1968, when he was aged 14, for organizing and leading a student demonstration to press the demand for what he claimed as the "right of self-determination" for the people of Kashmir.

Shabir Shah was arrested and jailed for 3 months and 15 days in Srinagar's Central Jail, thus began his jail journey and has been in and out of jail and under house arrest ever since.

In 1972, Shabir Shah organized demonstrations in Jammu and was arrested under the Defence of Indian Rules Act and detained in Central Jail, Srinagar for eleven months.

In 1975, Shabir Shah denounced the Indira-Abdullah Accord signed by the then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah.

Shabir Shah was arrested for 4 months and subsequently confined in Central Jail, Srinagar for another 30 months.

Shabir Shah was kept in the sub-jail Kathua and later moved to Central Jail in Srinagar where he was kept for twelve months.

Shabir Shah was released towards the end of 1981 but in early 1982 when the People's League launched the Quit Kashmir Movement, he was re-arrested.

When Shabir Shah was released in 1986, his health had deteriorated and within hours of his release, he addressed a press conference and demanded that the Kashmiri people be given what he calls the "right of self-determination".

But, in 1989, Shabir Shah was arrested with a militant in Ramban area of the Jammu-Srinagar national highway.

In 2020, during the COVID-19 outbreak, Shabir Shah's wife said that he has been in jail for 33 years, so the other people can stay indoor.