`Humiliating to the core`: how India turned a Kashmir hotel into a jail
(The Guardian India)

The Centaur hotel was transformed into a gilded prison for once-powerful politicians loyal to IndiaIt was a prison unlike any other. The picturesque venue, on the lake front in the city of Srinagar in Kashmir, just minutes from a golf course, usually functions as a palatial hotel, but for three months last year it became a gilded jailhouse for Salman Sagar and dozens of once-powerful Kashmiri ministers and legislators.`It was a jail,` said Sagar. `The notion was given that it was five star but it was not ...They put immense psychological pressure on us. They were as strict as possible.` Related: `A storm has hit my life`: the Kashmiri families torn apart by mass arrests Continue reading...