State: Jammu and Kashmir

Year: 2019

Date: September 1, 2019

Source:

Lawfare, Summons/Notices – Journalists

Peerzada Ashiq was summoned to police stations in two different districts within a span of six hours for writing a story on an encounter at Shopian. He had been summoned to the Kothi Bagh Police Station on September 1, 2019, and asked to reveal the source of a story that he had reported on political detentions since August 5, 2019.