cydonian , 7 months ago

“Jail crushes you slowly from inside,” he said. During his time behind bars, Shah was moved around to different jails and faced months of interrogation. “You get affected mentally and physically,” he said. “You reach a point where you are broken and you make peace with this new personality you become in the prison.”

At one point he was kept for 20 days in solitary confinement in a 6ft-by-6ft cell, with no communication with the outside world. The harsh conditions made him ill and he began to hallucinate. “I did not know what was going on, that was a really worse period in this whole time,” he said.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/05/kashmiri-journalist-fahad-shah-reflects-on-prison-ordeal?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other