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India Arrests Two Journalists In Jammu And Kashmir

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This information is published by the Committee to Protect Journalists. Here is an excerpt:

Authorities in Uttarakhand and Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir must release journalists Kishor Ram and Fahad Shah immediately and cease arresting members of the press, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Tuesday.

On February 23, police in the northern state of Uttarakhand’s Pithoragarh district arrested Ram, a reporter with the privately owned news website Janjwar, according to news reports and Ram’s editor Ajay Prakash, who spoke to CPJ in a phone interview.

Separately, on Sunday, February 27, police in Jammu and Kashmir arrested Shah, editor of the privately owned news portal The Kashmir Walla, hours after he was granted interim bail in another case, according to news reports.

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