More than 4,000 Kashmiri protesters were reported to be arrested by 18 August, including several Kashmiri leaders to prevent any protest or outbreak of violence.[71][72] This figure was about 500 by 9 August.[3][74] Jammu and Kashmir's former chief ministers Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah,[75] and MLAs Mohammed Yousuf Tarigami and Engineer Rashid were among those placed under "preventive detention"[75] by the security forces.[6]