Police on Tuesday detained Javid Ahmad Mir, the leader of the breakaway faction of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front Javid Ahmad Mir and seven of his party colleagues for staging a demonstration in violation of prohibitory orders in Srinagar.

Mir, accompanied by several dozen party colleagues, staged a protest at Pratap Park shouting slogans demanding the release of political prisoners and an end to alleged human rights violations.

Those arrested were lodged at the Kothibagh police station.