Lawfare, National Security – Journalists

On October 8, 2018, security forces prevented photojournalists from covering the local elections in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district, according to Rising Kashmir. “We are not even allowed to move freely. The cops told us that there was clear direction from the district authorities not to allow media persons to cover the ULB [urban local bodies] polls,” photojournalist Shoeb Masoodi told Rising Kashmir. Kashmir Reader reported that a group of voters prevented photojournalists from taking their photographs at a polling booth in the Bemina area of the city of Srinagar.