Harassment – Journalists

Reiterating the dangers faced by journalists in Kashmir, the Kashmir Press Club, an elected body of media professionals in the region, on Monday, February 17, condemned the J&K police’s nocturnal raid on journalist Kamran Yousuf. Kamran, a resident of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district and is working with NewsClick, was picked up from his home by a police party led by Deputy Superintendent of Police and SHO Pulwama who entered his home around 11 PM.

The nocturnal raid against Kamran comes only a week after the press body highlighted many cases of physical attacks, harassment and summons by the J&K Police against media professionals in the Valley, especially since August 5, as the Centre imposed a massive clampdown in the region in the wake of abrogation of Article 370 and subsequent bifurcation of the state into union territories, a move vehemently opposed by Kashmiris.