Kashmiris face sedition charges for cheering Pakistan cricketers

Indian police say online celebration 'might spoil' the nation's 'atmosphere'

20211105 T20 World Cup match between India and Pakistan

Pakistan's first-ever World Cup cricket thumping of India on Oct. 24 inflamed animosities in the already tense Kashmir region. © Getty Images

SAFINA NABI, Contributing writer

SRINAGAR, India -- It was late at night, around 11 o'clock, on Oct. 26 when the mother and younger sisters of Arshad Yousuf learned that the 21-year-old -- the family's hope for a better future -- had been suspended from college, arrested by police and charged with sedition for celebrating Pakistan's T20 World Cup cricket victory over India on social media.

Arshad was suspended from Raja Balwant Singh Engineering Technical Campus, in Agra, a city in the state of Uttar Pradesh, which borders Nepal.

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