Arrests – Journalists

A young freelance journalist, whose work has featured in international publications like The Guardian, has been arrested by the National Investigations Agency (NIA) in connection with a Kashmir militant conspiracy case. Manan Gulzar Dar, 24, who has adopted the name Muhammad Manan for his professional work, was summoned to the police station in Srinagar’s Batamaloo locality on October 10.

A photojournalist by profession, one of Dar’s images from the aftermath of an encounter in Srinagar in July this year was featured in the Guardian’s ‘Twenty photographs of the week‘ section. His father, Gulzar Ahmad Dar told The Wire that he had handed his son over to police investigators who questioned him in Srinagar for nearly a fortnight before NIA officers flew him to New Delhi.