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Court orders release of Kashmiri student languishing in Haryana jail

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has quashed the detention of a South Kashmir student under the controversial Public Safety Act (PSA). The accused was put behind the bars without an FIR.

https://thekashmiriyat.co.uk/court-orders-release-of-kashmiri-student-languishing-in-haryana-jail

#kashmir #JKHC #haryana #YamunaNagar #PublicSafetyAct #PSA #DraconianLaws #india

500 Days: Kashmiri Journalist Fahad Shah’s Incarceration Is An Exercise In Assumptions & Retribution

Five hundred days after the Jammu and Kashmir police arrested him, journalist Fahad Shah, 32, remains incarcerated for an article he did not write but published more than 10 years ago as the editor of The Kashmir Walla, a digital news magazine he launched that year aged 21.

#kashmir #FahadShah #TheKashmirWalla #AbdulAlaFazili #PressFreedom #UAPA #FCRA #PublicSafetyAct #DraconianLaws #JKPolice #censorship #journalism #dissent #BJP #NIA #JKSIA #india

https://article-14.com/post/500-days-kashmiri-journalist-fahad-shah-s-incarceration-is-an-exercise-in-assumptions-retribution--648fbd385207e

‘This opaque censorship is gut-wrenching’: The Kashmir Walla’s website, social media blocked in India

The news website’s editor was first arrested in February last year.

#kashmir #TheKashmirWalla #PressFreedom #ITAct2000 #PublicSafetyAct #meity #JKPolice #FahadShah #SajadGul #facebook #meta #twitter #x #SocialMedia #censorship #journalism #dissent #BJP #india

https://www.newslaundry.com/2023/08/21/this-opaque-censorship-is-gut-wrenching-the-kashmir-wallas-website-social-media-blocked-in-india

Narendra Modi Is Using Brutal Repression to Silence the People of Kashmir

For decades, the Indian state has suppressed the democratic rights of Kashmiris. Narendra Modi’s hard-right government is taking this pattern of repression to new extremes, with the complicity of Indian intellectuals who seek to toxify the cause of Kashmir.

#kashmir #NarendraModi #HumanRights #CivilRights #PressFreedom #ReligiousFreedom #repression #democracy #militarisation #PublicSafetyAct #UAPA #hindutva #BJP #NIA #india

https://jacobin.com/2023/07/narendra-modi-kashmir-military-repression-censorship