India has weaponized its legal system to limit free speech and harassjournalists, particularly those in the occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
In a report, a US leading newspaper New York Times has said the clampdownon Kashmir’s media had intensified since 2019, when Modi’s governmentrevoked the state’s special status bringing the disputed region underdirect control of federal government.
The report said journalists in the disputed Kashmir region faced forbiddingpattern that include arrest, bail and re-arrest.
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It said Kashmiri journalists have long found themselves in a precarioussituation, squeezed between Kashmiris seeking independence and the Indiangovernment, which has tried to keep the largely Muslim region under a tightgrip.