Demanding a “stop to criminalisation of journalism”, the DIGIPUB News India Foundation has condemned the arrest of Kashmir Walla founding editor Fahad Shah and journalist Sajad Gul and that the arrests “reflect a wide-ranging government crackdown on journalists and journalism in Kashmir”.
In a statement released on Twitter, the collective of digital news organisations on Sunday said that Kashmir Walla was one of the few independent media organisations in Kashmir and that J&K police “have a record of intimidating Shah, who was first detained in 2017 and other times later, once at gunpoint”. “He was frequently summoned by the police and questioned over his journalism and the stories that Kashmir Walla carries.”
