Tag: Journalism


  • Earlier, Fahad Shah was granted interim bail by a special court of NIA in an Unlawful Act registered at police station Pulwama. SRINAGAR โ€” Jammu and Kashmir police Saturday arrested journalist Fahad Shah in another case hours after a special court granted interim bail to him in an Unlawful Act registered at police station Pulwama.…

  • Fahad Shah is the editor of an online and weekly print of The Kashmir Walla who was arrested by police earlier this month. SRINAGAR โ€” A special judge of NIA court granted interim bail to incarcerated journalist Fahad Shah on Saturday. โ€œThe majesty of law has been upheld, the Special Court designated under the NIA…

  • โ€œWe also urge you to arrange the immediate release of other detained Kashmiri journalistsโ€“ Sajad Gul, Aasif Sultan, and Manan Gulzar Dar โ€“ all of whom, like Shah, have been jailed under anti-terror or preventative detention laws in apparent retaliation for their work.โ€ SRINAGAR โ€” The International Press Institute and 57 other rights groups and…

  • The Kashmir Walla in a statement said that Shahโ€™s legal team will now move to a special court designated under National Investigation Agency (NIA) Act to secure bail. SRINAGAR โ€” The police remand of Fahad Shah, editor of The Kashmir Walla, was extended by 7 days on Monday, February 14. Earlier, on February 5, Shah…

  • According to the new policy, accreditation is liable to be withdrawn or suspended if a journalist โ€œacts in a manner prejudicial to the countryโ€™s security, sovereignty and integrity, friendly relations with foreign States, public order, decency or morality, or in any relation to contempt of court, defamation or incitement to an offenceโ€. NEW DELHI โ€”…

  • โ€œThe Guild reiterates its earlier demand that status quo before the January 14th order of Registrar of Societies be restored with respect to the functioning of the Club, and that the state works towards building and protecting the space for a free press.โ€ SRINAGAR โ€”The Editors Guild of India has expressed anguish over the shutting…

  • The government needs to review its decision and restore the Kashmir Press Club to its elected members. The illegal coup party should be told to prepare for polls and for that, re-registration should be done. Brushing aside the brouhaha created by the illegal takeover, the administrationโ€™s decision to hand over the Kashmir Press Club building…

  • Pertinently, a group of โ€˜disgruntled journalistsโ€™ led by Times of India reporter Salim Pandit forcibly took over the club premises on Saturday with the help of armed forces. SRINAGAR โ€” The Jammu and Kashmir administration Monday cancelled the allotment of the Kashmir Press Club. The administration statement said that it was concerned over the emergent…

  • The order by the administration was issued after the Club Management had put in motion the process of electing the new management body as well as the executive committee members. SRINAGAR โ€” The Jammu and Kashmir administration has put in abeyance the re-registration of Kashmir Press Club. The Kashmir Press Club in a statement said…

  • โ€œHe just quoted the family. He didnโ€™t write anything on his own. They should better kill my son in front of my eyes, than make his life hell like this forever!โ€ Sajad Gul faced the raid he feared on 4 January 2022 soon after dusk fell over his hometown Shahgund in north Kashmirโ€™s Sonawari belt. …