: Jammu and Kashmir: Police raid homes of four journalists in Srinagar #IndiaNEWS The homes of four journalists in Jammu and Kashmir were raided by the police on Wednesday, AP reported. The action was

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Jammu and Kashmir: Police raid homes of four journalists in Srinagar #IndiaNEWS
The homes of four journalists in Jammu and Kashmir were raided by the police on Wednesday, AP reported. The action was taken against journalists Hilal Mir, Showkat Motta, Shah Abbass and Azhar Qadri.A senior police official told Scroll.in that they were questioned in a case about a blog called “Kashmir Fight�, which is reportedly run from Pakistan. The blog drew attention after the killing of journalist Shujaat Bukhari in 2018. In October 2020, the police had filed a first information report against the handler of the blog.The four journalists were released after the questioning, but they will be summoned again on Thursday. Mir is a former editor of the newspaper Greater Kashmir and also wrote frequently for the Turkish television network TRT. Abbass wrote for Greater Kashmir’s Urdu sister-publication Kashmir Uzma as well as Spanish news agency EFE. Qadri was associated with The Kashmir Walla.Matta was the editor of Kashmir Narrator, a magazine that has shut down. Aasif Sultan, a journalist who also worked with the magazine, has been in jail since August 2018. The police have accused him of working for the militant group Hizbul Mujahideen. The Jammu and Kashmir Police have not issued a statement on the raids yet.The posts in “Kashmir Fight� had targeted and vilified Bukhari and other journalists, politicians and activists in the Valley who were engaged in Track II diplomacy,...Read more

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