A magistrate speaking to AFP news agency on condition of anonymity said at least 4,000 people were arrested in Indian-occupied Kashmir and held under the Public Safety Act (PSA), a controversial law that allows authorities to imprison someone for up to two years without charge or trial, according to Al-Jazeera.

"Most of them were flown out of Kashmir because prisons here have run out of capacity," the magistrate reportedly said, adding that he had used a satellite phone allocated to him to collate the figures from colleagues across the Himalayan territory amid a communications blackout imposed by authorities.

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