: Now-shuttered Kashmir Press Club was the last institution holding the government to account #IndiaNEWS After a harrowing five hours with a counter-insurgency official in Srinagar in September 2020,

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Now-shuttered Kashmir Press Club was the last institution holding the government to account #IndiaNEWS
After a harrowing five hours with a counter-insurgency official in Srinagar in September 2020, journalist Auqib Javeed headed to the Kashmir Press Club first. “Everyone was waiting for me at the Press Club,� recalled Javeed, who works with the Kashmir Observer, a local daily. “I didn’t share anything with my family. I felt kind of safe sharing my burden with my colleagues.� A day earlier, Javeed had been summoned by the Kashmir police’s cyber cell over a report about the alleged intimidation of social media users by the police. When he went to the police station, two members from the Club accompanied him to provide support. For many like Javeed, the Kashmir Press Club had become a safe harbour over the last couple of years. After Jammu and Kashmir was stripped of autonomy and downgraded from state to Union Territory on August 5, 2019, summons and police cases against journalists – especially those who published stories critical of the government or security forces – had become routine. “Journalists would reach out to the Press Club, they knew it could seek accountability from the government,� said Javeed, who was also an executive member of the club’s managing body.Now, the government has effectively declared that the Kashmir...Read more

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