The Twitter account of multimedia magazine KashmirWalla was locked by thesocial media company after it tweeted one of its stories in August aboutregional police attacks against a Shia mourners procession, its owner saidFriday.
The story, “They attacked women, children, Kashmir’s pellet riddledmuharram procession,” was reported Aug. 29 and detailed how women, childrenand men were fired upon with hundreds of lead pellets during a mourningprocession in memory of the Muslim prophet’s grandson, Hussain.
The story was reposted Thursday but was soon found to violate Twitter’spolicies.
“It violates our rules against posting media depicting the moment of deathof an individual(s),” according to Twitter.
The editor and owner of the magazine, Fahad Shah, told Anadolu Agency thathe does not understand how a reported news story can violate rules.
“The media was an urgent news story of police brutality against unarmedcivilians during a religious procession that @tkwmag reported in Aug 2020.The tweet doesn’t encourage violence but is an important documentation ofthe use of violence against unarmed civilians. @TwitterIndia.” he wrote onhis account.
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Shah said despite explaining and appealing to Twitter to restore theaccount, it has not been done.
“We have been unable to post our stories through Twitter since yesterday,it is just another low,” said Shah.
Twitter was accused in 2019 of suppressing freedom of expression in theKashmir region after a study by media watchdog, Committee to ProtectJournalists, revealed that nearly 1 million tweets have been removed since2017.
