In their home in Sopore, the parents of 25-year old Tawseef Ahmad Bhat helplessly seek their son’s release. Tawseef was arrested by police in India and charged with sedition for speaking against Indian rule in Kashmir and endorsing Kashmir’s independence on his Facebook account.

“Our son is just 25. Simply because he shared a post on social media the police has arrested him and kept him in confinement! We cannot understand why a grave charge of sedition has been slapped on him,” Inam-ul-Bhat, Tawseef’s brother told Kashmir Reader.

A pall of gloom has descended on Tawseef’s home in Gund Brath, Sopore since his arrest on August 2. Tawseef was employed as an engineer in a mobile phone company in Chhattisgarh.