South Asia Human Rights Journalist Association

Srinagar, Aug 04, 2020: The curfew and strict restrictions continued in the Kashmir valley ahead of August 5, which will be observed as Yaum-e-Istehsal across the Line of Control and the world over  tomorrow on Wednesday. The Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir  is already under military siege from August 5 last year while there were already strict restrictions in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, which were increased on Eidul Azha and now the authorities blocked all roads and tightened by deployment of more forces ahead of the completion of one year of the revocation of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status by the fascist Modi government of India on August 5, last year. 
 

Srinagar, August 4 , 2020 : The Indian authorities booked a Kashmiri journalist  under a black law and was shifted to Srinagar Central Jail, today. The editor of Kashmiriyat, the news portal Qazi Shibli who was was summoned by Indian police few days ago from his residence in Islamabad district and detained him in an interrogation center has been booked under 107 Security for keeping the peace in other cases, a law that allows pre-emptive detention of a person based on suspicion. 

Srinagar, July 20, 2020: Indian troops ruthlessly beat up a B.Sc graduate and a civil service aspirant in Pulwama district.The Indian forces during cordon and search operation dragged and brutally assaulted Waseem Ahmed in Kakapora  area of the district, the family members told media men.
“We don’t know why he was beaten up. Our pleas and hand folded requests before Indian forces personnel went all in vain as they continued to hit him in front of us,” the family said. Waseem is a B.Sc graduate and a civil service aspirant who according to his family, recently made it to the IAS coaching that was started with the help of District Development Commissioner Pulwama. 
 

July 18 , 2020: Journalists held a demonstration in KunzarTangmarg area of Baramulla district against an assault on a photojournalist by a government official. The journalist, Sajad Hameed, who works as a photojournalist with Kashmir Times, said that he was performing his professional duty and covering a protest by locals against Public Health Engineering (PHE) department when the Tehsildar pushed him multiple times and ask him to close his camera. Sajad Hameed said that despite introducing himself as a journalist to the Tehsildar, he was verbally abused, insulted and pushed. 

July 18 , 2020: Journalists held a demonstration in KunzarTangmarg area of Baramulla district against an assault on a photojournalist by a government official.

July 18 , 2020: Journalists held a demonstration in KunzarTangmarg area of Baramulla district against an assault on a photojournalist by a government official.