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MYSTERIOUS: Kashmir journalist arrested amid widening crackdown - What They Never Told You

Shah was awarded the Human Rights Press Awards in 2021 [Picture courtesy of Umer Asif]

Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir – Police in Indian-administered Kashmir have arrested a prominent journalist under stringent “anti-terror” law and sedition, accusing him of “glorifying terrorism”  and “spreading fake news”, in an intensifying crackdown on press freedom in the Himalayan region.

Fahad Shah, 33, editor of a local news portal, The Kashmir Walla, was arrested on Friday from the southern district of Pulwama – a month after Sajad Dar, a Kashmir Walla contributor, was arrested for social media posts.

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