Srinagar: Hardline Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Friday placed under house arrest.
Geelani was planning to lead an anti-US protest.
“A police posse was deployed at the Hyderpora residence of Geelani on Srinagar-airport road on Friday morning and asked not to allow the separatist leader to venture out,” PTI quoted official sources as saying.
Geelani-led faction of Hurriyat had called for peaceful protests on Friday against what it called "nefarious designs of America and to express solidarity with the people of holy cities of Mecca, Madinah and Pakistan."
Expressing serious concern over US intentions in Mecca, Madinah and Pakistan, the Hurriyat spokesman alleged, "America had virtually declared a war against the Muslim world."
Geelani was supposed to address the Friday congregation at Machoo area on the outskirts of Srinagar before leading protestors.
Meanwhile, a group of Hurriyat activists assembled at Badshah chowk in the heart of the city and staged a peaceful protest.
The nearly two dozen slogan-shouting protestors dispersed peacefully when police arrived on the scene, the sources said.
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