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'Reporting is public service, not crime': 58 organisations write to J&K LG on Fahad Shah's arrest

Fifty-eight press freedom organisations, human rights organisations and publications wrote to Jammu and Kashmir lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha on Monday, asking him to secure the "immediate release" of journalist Fahad Shah.

Shah, the editor of Kashmir Walla, was arrested on February 4 for sharing "anti-national content" on social media. The letter urged Sinha to also withdraw "all police investigations launched into his journalistic work".

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