Kashmir (India)

Newspaper bans, Facebook takedowns and clampdowns on internet and telecommunications services are making it harder for people to access information, express dissent and maintain contact with friends and family during a very turbulent time.

The IFJ and its affiliates in India are saddened by the death of a respected Kashmiri photojournalist on duty covering the floods in India’s Kashmir Valley and have called on India’s media organisations to do more to protect workers sent into the field to cover disasters.

Sixty-seven Kashmiri university students were briefly charged with sedition for cheering for Pakistan, and celebrating its win over India, during an Asia Cup cricket match.

Curbing the flow of information during heightened periods of tension has become routine business by authorities in the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. Access to mobile Internet service was recently suspended after violent protests erupted in the state.

The Indian government should appoint an independent commission to investigate the killing of four protesters by Border Security Force (BSF) troops in Jammu and Kashmir state, Human Rights Watch noted.

Despite making two award-winning documentaries, filmmaker Ashvin Kumar has faced difficulty having his films shown on Indian TV.

The teenaged members of Kashmiri all-girl band Pragaash decided to shelve their music career after being harassed online, and having a fatwa issued against them. Index on Censorship reports on how the controversy unfolded.

The International Federation of Journalists is disturbed at the detention and harassment of a journalist in Delhi and a media shutdown in the Kashmir region, following the execution of a person convicted of conspiring in a terrorist attack.

In an open letter to the Indian authorities, CJFE expresses its concern over recent attacks against journalists in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.

Four journalists were reportedly assaulted by Central Reserve Police Force personnel while covering protests that took place after Friday prayers in the city of Srinagar.

Two journalists suffered serious injuries during a confrontation between political demonstrators and security forces.

Security forces did not allow journalists to move in the region’s capital, Srinagar, during the area’s curfew, even though they had passes issued by the government.

Journalist Riyaz Masroor was attacked by police while on his way to collect a curfew pass from the state government’s Information Department.

The curfew that started in June 2010 was extended to cover the movement of all civilians, and word was put out that press passes would no longer be honoured.

(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is an IFJ media release: Journalists Assaulted in Northern Kashmir The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is deeply concerned to hear of an assault on journalists by police and other security personnel in the Arampora area of the north Kashmir town of Sopore on December 7. According to local sources, a […]

(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is a 26 August 2008 IFJ media release: IFJ Deplores Attacks on Media in Kashmir The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is disturbed by reports of the media being directly targeted in an intensifying security crackdown in the Kashmir region in India. Newspapers in Srinagar, the capital of Jammu and Kashmir, […]