(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has condemned the 31 January 2003 murder of Parvaz Mohammed Sultan, owner and editor-in-chief of the local news agency News and Feature Alliance (NAFA), in the summer capital, Srinagar. The organisation has called on the state’s chief minister and the federal home affairs minister to quickly arrest and try those responsible for […]
(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has condemned the 31 January 2003 murder of Parvaz Mohammed Sultan, owner and editor-in-chief of the local news agency News and Feature Alliance (NAFA), in the summer capital, Srinagar. The organisation has called on the state’s chief minister and the federal home affairs minister to quickly arrest and try those responsible for the murder.
Sultan, aged 35, was shot dead at his home office in Srinagar’s Press Enclave, where most media outlets are based. Police suspect the two gunmen were armed separatists. The journalist was wounded in the neck and died of his injuries a short time later. In addition to running NAFA, he was also a local correspondent for the Indian newspaper “Quami Awaaz”.
Since the start of separatist violence in 1989, a dozen journalists have been killed in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
