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a thread / indian press is decrying its freedom; justifying errors happen in evolving stories; how their work should be unhindered; #asifsultan a kashmiri journalist has been incarcerated for a *story* for a few years now 1/n https://cpj.org/data/people/aasif-sultan/amp/
kashmiri reported are routinely booked, detained, humiliated and threatened 2/n https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia-india-54655948
routinely repressed from doing their job, slapped with contempt of court and what not 3/n https://rsf.org/en/news/indian-police-campaign-harassment-journalists-kashmir
nothing is too far; detainment, criminalization - all is fair game for indian military occupation for kashmiri press 4/n https://cpj.org/2020/08/jammu-and-kashmir-authorities-detain-journalist-and-editor-qazi-shibli/amp
raiding, framing - from junior to senior journos, out of blue - simply for reporting "truth" often unpalatable to indian occupation; simply for being an upright kashmiri 5/n https://apnews.com/article/india-kashmir-bukhari-pravez-ahanger-8eeb61fb0a02909893f5d1aa35101c9b
media gag is not arbitrary anymore but a law, censorship is not hidden, or a whim but a bold truth imposed by india, the contraption that calls itself a democracy 6/n https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/j-k-admn-s-new-media-policy-an-affront-to-press-freedom-say-kashmiri-journalists/story-onv0pfBkgHcBnUH6ZoQl2O.html
while this has not gone unnoticed in the international kashmiris and their press is be yaar o madad gaar nevertheless 7/n https://www.inversejournal.com/2020/04/24/ensure-press-freedom-in-kashmir-noam-chomsky-ayesha-jalal-tariq-ali-hamid-dabashi-and-several-prominent-figures-endorse-letter-addressing-the-un-and-worldwide-organizations-with-450-signatures-by-acad/
it continues today; as priviledged imperial indian's journalists look for their freedom needle in the rotting haystack contraption of a country; 2 kashmiri independent portals, @TheKashmiriyat & @tkwmag often harasssed are again charged 8/n https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/fir-against-2-kashmir-news-portals-after-army-complains-of-fake-news-101612099960070-amp.html
journalism, writing, words, whisper, breath are essentially criminalized in kashmir today and always by the neocolonial hindu supremacist india. period. 9/n
