KW reports from Indian occupied Kashmir
Srinagar: International Forum For Justice Human Rights JK Thursday said that the fascist Indian state and the RSS thugs were using the draconian “Unlawful Activities Prevention Act” indiscriminately to silence the Kashmiris and force them into submission.
Chairman International Forum for Justice Human RightsJK, Muhammad Ahsan Untoo, issue an interim report that said that the UAPA is being slapped not only on political activists, dissenters and those demanding freedom but also against the people who merely demand justice against a crime committed by the state agencies, or individuals.
Untoo said that recently eight people in Bumhama Kupwara detained under the UAPA just for demanding action against a policeman who was involved in a road accident in the area. Besides, he said, on the directions of RSS masters and fascist rulers the people are detained under UAPA for six months and then they are slapped with another infamous law “Public
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Srinagar: Kashmir Press Club Condemns Assault of 2 Photojournalists by Police
BBC s Shafat Farooq and freelance photographer Saqib Majeed were hit by personnel while they were covering a protest.
A screengrab from a video showing the photographers with police personnel. Photo: Twitter/@AakashHassan
Media05/Mar/2021
New Delhi: The Kashmir Press Club has condemned the assault by police on two photojournalists while they were at work covering a protest in Srinagar.
The journalists,
BBC’s Shafat Farooq and freelance photographer Saqib Majeed, were at the Nowhatta area of Srinagar. They were covering protests that had broken out at a congregation for Friday prayers, according to the KPC’s statement.
Times Now, with headlines announcing that the new laws now had US backing.
In fact, the US State Department statement, while cautiously welcoming “steps that would improve the efficiency of India’s markets”, called for dialogue with the farmers and underlined that peaceful protests and freedom of expression are the “hallmark” of a democracy.
That it is the foreign media doing investigative journalism in and about India should raise some difficult questions, said Ayyub, the
Washington Post columnist. “Why have we not been able to do a single damning expose in Indian publications in the last five years?” she said. “…This is the time to take a stand and take an aggressive stand. Journalism is not even in danger, they have managed to intimidate us into silence, that process has happened.”