Journalists have contended with various threats in Indian-administered Kashmir as India throws the region under a severe security and communication lockdown
For five years, Sajad Gul has written about conflict wracking his homeland, a disputed Himalayan territory where a violent armed rebellion and India's brutal counter insurgency have raged for over three decades.
A year later, the government’s new media policy sought to control the press more effectively to censure independent reporting. Police told Gul’s family that he was arrested for provoking people to “resort to violence and disturb public peace.” Instead of freeing Gul, authorities charged him in a new case under the Public Safety Act, which allows officials to imprison anyone for up to two years without trial.How Kashmiri voices are silenced across social mediaMedia has always been tightly controlled in India administrated, Muslim-majority Kashmir.
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