Raid, Summon, Censor: Crackdown on Journalists is the New Normal in Kashmir

Raid, Summon, Censor: Crackdown on Journalists is the New Normal in Kashmir

New policy and policing methods combined with various prohibitive action has made journalism a particularly difficult profession to have in Kashmir. Junaid Kathju The raid at the residences of four Kashmiri journalists in the wee hours of September 9 might be seen as a jolt to the fourth pillar of democracy elsewhere in the world. In a conflict-torn Kashmir, however, it is the new normal that the journalistic fraternity is facing after the government of India took direct control of the former state, following the reading down of its special status on…

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