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Al Jazeera Staff

Outrage as another Kashmiri journalist stopped from flying abroad

Aakash Hassan, 25, is an independent Kashmiri journalist [Courtesy of Aakash Hassan]

Yet another Kashmiri journalist has been stopped by the Indian authorities from flying abroad as outrage grows over a continuing clampdown on press freedom in Indian-administered Kashmir and its residents.

Independent journalist Aakash Hassan, 25, was on his way to Sri Lanka for a reporting assignment last week when immigration officials at New Delhi airport barred him from boarding the flight, making him the fourth Kashmiri journalist in about a year to face the action.

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