UN calls Social Media ban in Kashmir a ‘Collective Punishment’

Urges India to restore internet services immediately to allow free speech Terming the ban on social media networks in Jammu and Kashmir as “collective punishment”, two United Nations human rights experts on Thursday demanded that it be immediately lifted. In a press release on the official website of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), David Kaye and Michel Forst asserted that “the scope of these restrictions has a significantly disproportionate impact on the fundamental rights of everyone in Kashmir, undermining the government’s stated aim of preventing dissemination…

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