![]() ![]() He went on to be arrested five times within four months. As had our Twitter account, “in response to a legal demand.” In tandem with this move, we have also now been served an eviction notice by the landlord of our office in Srinagar and we are in process of evicting the office.Fahad Shah, our founder-editor, was arrested in February 2022 over the coverage of a gunfight. It was the beginning of the saga of his revolving door arrests. The Kashmir Walla is an independent news site based in Srinagar that has been covering developments in Jammu and Kashmir without fear or favour for more than 12 years.For the past 18 months, however, we’ve lived a horrifying nightmare – with the arrest and imprisonment of our founder-editor, Fahad Shah, and the harassment of our reporters and staff, amid an already inhospitable climate for journalism in the region.On Saturday, August 19, 2023, we woke up to another deadly blow of finding access to our website and social media accounts blocked.When we contacted our server provider on Saturday morning to ask why was inaccessible, they informed us that our website has been blocked in India by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology under the IT Act, 2000.Next, we discovered that our Facebook page – with nearly half a million followers – had been removed.Here we include the full statement from The Kashmir Walla as both a declaration of our support and part of our continuing efforts to see justice and basic human decency upheld. This weekend, we received word that Indian authorities have now shut down the newspaper that Fahad founded and gave his freedom for.The Monitor is working with other news organizations and press freedom advocates to secure Fahad’s release. Just last week in this space, we highlighted the need for press freedom and the plight of one of our friends and colleagues in Kashmir, Fahad Shah, who has been imprisoned in India for more than a year on specious charges. ![]()
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