ALLEGING HARASSMENT of journalists in the Valley, former chief minister and PDP president Mehbooba Mufti has written a letter to Press Council of India (PCI), asking it to send an independent fact-finding team to Jammu and Kashmir.
“We have witnessed the manner in which fundamental rights such as freedom of speech & expression enshrined in the Indian Constitution have increasingly come under attack, especially in the last two years by a hostile and insecure dispensation,” Mufti wrote to the media watchdog.
“Unwarranted harassment of journalists has become a norm and this policy has been implemented by raiding their homes, summoning and interrogating them on frivolous grounds such as innocuous tweets; conducting background checks of journalists and their family members by CID, withdrawal of benefits including accommodation of some senior journalists, seizure of mobile phones, laptops, confiscating passports, ATM cards etc,” she wrote.
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