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Concern over recent threats to journalists working in Kashmir | Editors Guild of India (Nov 18, 2022)

18 November 2022

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The Editors Guild of India
Address: 4/7- A, INS Building, Rafi Marg, New Delhi-110001

PRESS STATEMENT

November 18th, 2022

The Editors Guild of India is deeply concerned about the recent threats issued to journalists working in Kashmir, by alleged terror organisations, and the subsequent resignations of five of the journalists from their respective media outlets.

Journalists in Kashmir now find themselves in the firing line from both the state authorities as well as terrorists, in what is a throwback to the years of heightened militancy in the 1990s. Once again media houses have been named by terror groups warning that those associated with well-known regional papers including Rising Kashmir and Greater Kashmir will be declared