SRINAGAR: The Editors Guild of India in a statement on Tuesday said that it is deeply anguished by the shutting down of the Kashmir Press Club, the biggest journalist body in the Kashmir valley, adding that it sets a dangerous precedent for media freedom.
Most of the leading dailies in Kashmir printed their front pages in blank on Sunday as a mark of protest against the unexplained denial of advertisements to two newspapers by the Jammu and Kashmir government. The Kashmir Editors Guild (KEG) had claimed last month that the state government had stopped giving advertisements to two major local dailies Greater Kashmir and Kashmir Reader.
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A media advisory issued by the inspector-general of police, Kashmir, Vijay Kumar, asking mediapersons to stay away from encounter sites and law-and-order situations have caused anguish among the media fraternity in the Valley.
“Journalists cover encounters for facts, information (vital in a democracy). It is a call to duty,” tweeted senior journalist and editor of the Kashmir Times Anuradha Bhasin.
The IGP has issued directions to the police that media shouldn’t be allowed “to interfere in the professional and bonafide duty of police and security forces at encounter sites and during law- and-order situations.” The IGP has asked “media persons not to come closer to the encounter site and law-and-order situation and do not carry any live coverage of any encounter