: ‘Reporting truth being criminalised in J&K’: Mehbooba Mufti writes to Press Council, Editors Guild #IndiaNEWS Peoples Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti on Monday expressed concern on the alleged

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‘Reporting truth being criminalised in J&K’: Mehbooba Mufti writes to Press Council, Editors Guild #IndiaNEWS
Peoples Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti on Monday expressed concern on the alleged harassment of journalists in Jammu and Kashmir and said that reporting truth was being criminalised with each passing day. In a letter to the Press Council of India and the Editors Guild of India, Mufti pointed to the police raids at the homes of four journalists on September 8 and alleged that their mobile phones, laptops, ATM cards and passport of their spouses were illegally seized.A senior police officer had told Scroll.in that the four journalists – Hilal Mir, Showkat Motta, Mohammad Shah Abbass and Azhar Qadri – were questioned in a case about a blog called “Kashmir Fight�. Reports suggested that the blog was run from Pakistan.In her letter, Mufti claimed that journalists in Jammu and Kashmir were being harassed since August 2019 after the special status granted to the erstwhile state under Article 370 was abrogated.“We have witnessed the manner in which fundamental rights such as freedom of speech and expression enshrined in the Indian Constitution have increasingly come under attack especially in the last two years by a hostile and insecure dispensation,� she said.The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister claimed that harassing journalists has become a norm and they were being targeted...Read more

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