ISLAMABAD – Top Kashmiri journalist becomes victim of Modi governmentfascist regime in India.
Another prominent Kashmiri journalist fell victim to the Modi-ledgovernment’s ongoing clampdown on the people of Occupied Jammu and Kashmirsince the revoking of special status of its only Muslim-majority state onAugust 5.
As the crippling lockdown in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) nears a month,journalists in the disputed region complain of harassment by authorities,with many accusing security forces of deleting their camera footage and apressure to report “normalcy”.
According to a report published in *The Print*, journalist-author GowharGeelani who recently re-joined *Deutsche Welle, *the German news agency, asan editor claimed that he was stopped from travelling to Bonn at the IndiraGandhi International Airport in New Delhi.
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The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on August 16 said in its reportlink thatIndian authorities had detained at least two journalists in the occupiedvalley and urged to immediately stop its harassment of journalists amidtensions and the communications blackout in the region.