Kashmir (India)

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 29 August 2008 CPJ press release: Media shut down in Kashmir; one journalist dead New York, August 29, 2008 – The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Indian authorities to protect journalists and lift restrictions on media workers in the curfew-bound northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, after […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders deplores the 26 Augusty 2008 raid by members of the counter intelligence agency on the home of Shujaat Bukhari, “The Hindu” daily newspaper’s correspondent in Srinagar. Bukhari, who was not at home at the time, was told by his family that the agents were looking for two Kashmiri leaders. No […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders calls on the Indian authorities to put an immediate stop to the censorship and violence against the media in Kashmir that has been prompted by a wave of protests against Indian rule. At least 13 journalists were beaten by police on 24 August 2008 in Srinagar, local TV stations are […]

(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is a 1 May 2008 IFJ media release: IFJ Urges India to Clarify Restrictions on Pakistani TV The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is pleased to note that a dispute arising from a putative ban on Pakistani television channels broadcasting into Jammu and Kashmir in India has been resolved for now. […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders calls on the federal government in New Delhi to explain why cable TV operators in the northwestern state of Jammu and Kashmir have been forbidden to carry several Pakistani TV channels. The organisation calls on the Indian authorities in charge of regulating the broadcast media to lift the ban and […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has condemned an attempt on the life of Shujaat Bukhari, the Kashmir correspondent of the national English-language daily “The Hindu”, on 10 June 2006 in Srinagar. He was kidnapped and driven out of the city centre, but when one of his abductors tried to shoot him, the gun jammed. The […]

(IFJ/IFEX) – In a 29 April 2004 letter to Indian Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the IFJ expressed deep concern over the death of freelance journalist Asiya Jeelani and the injuring of Khurram Parvez and Kumar Bharti. On 20 April, Asiya Jeelani, a freelance journalist, was killed in a mine explosion in India-controlled Kashmir, […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 22 April 2004 CPJ press release: JOURNALIST KILLED IN MINE EXPLOSION IN INDIA New York, April 22, 2004-A journalist was killed in a mine explosion in India-controlled Kashmir on Tuesday, April 20. Asiya Jeelani died en route to the hospital after the van she was traveling in, which was […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 30 April 2003 CPJ press release: INDIA: Militant group threatens to kill journalists in Kashmir New York, April 30, 2003—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemns the threat issued yesterday by the militant group Tehrik-ul-Mujahideen against journalists working “against the freedom struggle” in the disputed territory of Kashmir. The […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 28 April 2003 CPJ press release: KASHMIR: State-owned radio and television offices attacked April 28, 2003, New York-The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemns the recent attack on the offices of Doordarshan Television and Radio Kashmir in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir. Five people were killed. At […]

(RSF/IFEX) – The English-language private daily “Kashmir Observer”, published in Srinagar, north-western India, has been experiencing serious financial difficulties ever since the Jammu and Kashmir state government decided to stop purchasing advertising space in the publication’s pages. RSF is concerned about the consequences of the new provincial government’s discriminatory policies, which could have grave long-term […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – In a 5 February 2003 letter to Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, CPJ condemned the murder of journalist Parvaz Mohammed Sultan, editor of an independent wire service based in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir State. On the evening of 31 January, Sultan, editor of the News and Feature Alliance […]

(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 […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – New York, January 13, 2003—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) welcomes the release from prison today of Iftikhar Gilani, New Delhi bureau chief for the Jammu-based newspaper Kashmir Times. Authorities had accused Gilani of possessing classified documents “prejudicial to the safety and security of the country,” a charge they finally admitted was unsubstantiated. […]

(RSF/IFEX) – On 24 December 2002, RSF reiterated its call for the immediate release of detained Kashmiri journalist Iftikhar Gilani after a senior military officer told the judge in charge of the case that Gilani is innocent. On 23 December, officer O. S. Lochab, director general of the Indian military secret service, testified before Judge […]

(RSF/IFEX) – On 9 September 2002, RSF denounced India’s formal accusation of “military espionage” against journalist Iftikhar Gilani. Gilani is the New Delhi bureau chief for the “Kashmir Times” and a correspondent for the Pakistani daily “The Nation”. “The charge of spying for a foreign power is a big favourite of governments trying to silence […]