The Indian Army’s secretive role in hyper-nationalist protests in Kashmir as they try to establish a new generation of politicians, power brokers in the valley, tied indivisibly with the BJP's vision for the region. I report.
A huge contingent of police and paramilitary forces outside the Jamia Millia Islamia University, in view of a protest call given by the students against the Karnataka
#Hijabban
.
#HijabRow
An activist writes on a newly whitewashed wall at Jamia Millia Islamia, where previous graffiti had been wiped out: "Free Safoora and Free Sharjeel Imam".
#India
#activism
#IndianMuslims
What
#IndianMuslims
are witnessing is ethnic cleansing. Today they witnessed systematic destruction of not just their homes, but also businesses and religious places. This despite the SC stay order.
“There was a big joke in all of this. We were taken from the police post to the SDM court in a private car. It was a black Innova-type car with a BJP flag. The police were in civil dress.”
@singhamritaa
and I interview Siddique Kappan
As a crowd of people chant "
#Kashmir
mein zulm hai"--Kashmir is under oppression--a
@ZeeNews
journalist literally speaks over them claiming that the people are looking forward to development.
Are Indian viewers so happy to buy state propaganda that they will ignore their ears?
Dead bodies of Covid-19 patients being cremated at a crematorium in Northeast Delhi, India. 1000's of Indians are facing an acute shortage of basic healthcare.
#AtmaNirbharBharat
#COVIDEmergency2021
#Delhi
Kashmir journalist
#AasifSultan
was granted bail by the court last week after four years in prison. After the bail CIK took him to the custody & kept him at Humaham Camp later he was handed over to PS batamaloo where he was illegally detained. Today, he was booked under PSA.
People don’t ask for justice anymore because justice has always been an illusion. They just want the dead bodies of their loved ones to be returned. That’s what it has come to be in Kashmir.
#Kashmir
The Indian Supreme court didn't utter a word when the rights of 8 million Kashmiris was throttled and their voice muzzled by the Indian state, but today it is concerned about the civil liberty of this rabid propagandist.
Congratulations
@mattoosanna
for winning the Pulitzer prize. It's a proud moment for Kashmir's journalism. World is recognising that Kashmir has professional journalists and its an answer to those who humiliate, intimidate and harras Journalists.
Journalist
@ZafarAafaq
of
@scroll_in
has been released after being interrogated for more than three hours by the Madhya Pradesh Police in Delhi's Lahori Gate police station. Zafar recently did a story on love jihad, the Bajrang Dal and the MP police.
People from the Christian community hold a protest outside the Sacred Heart Cathedral against violence committed by right wing Hindutva mob on Christan Adivasis in Chattisgarh, central India.
Thank you everyone for your support and solidarity. I want to thank my colleagues at
@thecaravanindia
, the lawyers who assisted us, & particularly my editors
@HartoshSinghBal
and Dr
@vinodjose
, who stood beside me and inspire me every day with their words, work and humanity...
Prabir Purkayastha editor of
@newsclickin
and his partner Githa Hariharan standing on their balcony during the raid by Enforcement directorate officals. 112 hours have passed since the raid began at their house.
#NewsClick
#journalism
#edraid
“Who do you call when the police murders?” written across a wall in Delhi. From numerous news reports & videos, it is clear that police officials either stood by & watched as Hindu mobs attacked Muslim neighbourhoods, or were complicit in targeted, communal attacks themselves.
On our way to a city hospital to administer chemotherapy to my uncle, we were stopped by the Indian army citing convoy movement. I pleaded with them to let us go as our uncle is critically ill. But our pleas fell on deaf ears and we were made to wait for over an hour.
#Kashmir
“What is happening in Naya
#Kashmir
? shroud stealing , Shroud stealing,” Amir’s sister told me "Aamir was saying, I want to come back home. I will build a house, get married, he had many other dreams. But they killed him to get their stars (Promotions)."
Tow muslim Journalists
@mdmeharban03
@meerfaisal01
were beaten up because of their identity. Communal slurs were shouted on them at Hindu mahapanchayat at Burari ground in New Delhi.
102 hours has passed since the raid began at
@newsclickin
. The house of the editor and founder of
@newsclickin
, Prabir Purkayastha, is still under raid. Prabir's partner, Githa, who had a heart attack recently, hasn't moved house since the raid started.
#NewsClick
#journalism
Mohmmad Akram Khan, 22, said he was returning home from special prayers when a group of Hindutva rioters chased him, throwing rocks at him and attacking him with lathis. Though he escaped the mob, Akram fell to the ground while running, and just as he was standing...1 (5)
“We won’t respond to violence with violence. We won’t respond to hate with hate. If they spread hate, we will respond to it with love. If they thrash us with lathis, we keep holding the tricolour."
@UmarKhalidJNU
#StandWithUmarKhalid
Mohd Nasir Khan & other victims of the anti-Muslim violence in Delhi outside the advocate
@MehmoodPracha
’s office, where the DP special cell is still conducting a raid. Pracha represented many victims of the violence, who came outside his office to support him during the raid.
Ahead of
@AmitShah
visit to
#Kashmir
,
@JmuKmrPolice
have seized hundreds of two wheelers in the past couple of days in Srinagar. Many I spoke said that, "This is harassment in the name of security." People have been told that their vehicles will be released only after HM's visit.
"We are slaves. We are not a nation-state like Turkey or Pakistan who can retaliate to Israel. I feel it is my responsibility as a muslim to raise voice to express my feelings in support of
#Palestine
. I express my feeling through art using art," Mudasir Gull, 32-year-old artist.
Police have stopped the traffic movement towards the press colony and electricity has been snapped as night long protesters are going on by the families, demanding the return of bodies of civilians killed in government forces operation in Hyderpora.
#Kashmir
Indian paramilitary forces are building bunkers across Srinagar city, to increase government forces in the world's highest militarised zone. The presence of forces has been beefed up in the main city following the recent targeted civilian killings.
#Kashmir
#UmarKhalid
has been perpetually haunted and targeted by the current regime & Indian media for his name and for his political views. First, they worked hard to profile him as an "anti-national" & now they are busy turning him into a "violent perpetrator."
#StandWithUmarKhalid
After the authorities cut electricity on the JNU campus, where the students union were preparing to screen the BBC documentary on Narendra Modi's role in the Gujarat violence, students gather around laptops for the screening.
“In Telugu, we say ‘Kaugili’ meaning hug. That was what gave me courage. I feel like if I could just hug him once, it would blow away all of my sadness like cotton in the winds.”
My video story on Vasantha Kumari, incarcerated professor GN Saibaba’s wife
Kyuun bhi kahna jurm hai kaise bhi kahna jurm hai
Saans lene ki to azadi mayassar hai magar
Zinda rahne ke liye insan ko kuchh aur bhi darkar hai
Aur is kuchh aur bhi ka tazkira bhi jurm hai
_ Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi
Apparently four deputy commissioners from Kashmir have met “Shri Additional Director in PMO." One meeting was facilitated by a photojournalist working at the "largest newspaper" in the valley. The question remains, what did these DCs discuss with him?
You have built careers on Kashmir and your silence speak louder than your words.
#IrfanMehraj
is Kashmiri. A Muslim journalist and I can see the silence of the liberals.
#Urgenthelp
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“Have you ever seen such a lifeless Diwali? This video is of Nirbhaya’s house from Hathras, Bulgarhi village, on the day of Diwali. What would be their condition, you can understand.” Hatras victim's cousin brother
#Diwali
#hatras
Indian paramilitary troops detained two civilians & forced them to sit in front of them to prevent protesters from stone-pelting the forces during a clash in
#Pulwama
. The clashes took place after a gunfight in which govt officials claim that three rebel commanders were killed.
I spent over 8 months working on this report on the persecution of journalists, state surveillance, and the sanitisation of the archives and all Kashmiri voices, mainstream politicians, resistance leadership, and more.
At Sanat nagar crossing in
#kashmir
, a cop was beating up a civilian. When asked him why he was beating the man, his response to me was "he was taking photograph". Another cop told, we're not even "allowing doctor, forget journalist." It can happen only in police run state.
During the course of my reporting, I observed that my fellow colleagues are working in a hostile environment in
#Kashmir
, where intelligence agencies keep track of journalist's movements. This has resulted in a situation where many journalists no longer question the authorities
Kashmiri Journalists under crackdown amid
#coronaviruslockdown
.
On 18 April, the Kashmir police booked the photojournalist Masrat Zahra under the draconian UAPA. The police also registered an FIR against Peerzada Ashiq, a special correspondent for The Hindu.
@shahidtantray
:
Today's meeting confirms that they willingly accepted a paycut. Rest will be written in the history books. Can we count on the historians to write the truth?
#KashmirTalks
The script was written by MS Golwakar decades ago, inspired by Nazi's Germany. The Indian media is playing the role Rwanda Radio did in the Rwandan genocide.
Relatives of Aamir Latif magray cry in grief at his village. Aamir was killed in a military operation in Hyderpora, Srinagar. His body hasn't been returned to family. He has been buried miles away from home. His family have raised questions over the military operation.
#Kashmir
Amid heavy deployment of Government forces Saleem Pandit, Zulfiqar Majid & Arshid Rasool arbitrarily took over
#KashmirPressClub
. The democratically elected body was thrown out. In a meeting 'journalist' Javed Shah encouraged Pandit to follow 'Pakistan style military coup'.
My latest piece on the illusion of
BBC India’s independent journalism.
Over thirty current & former employees of the BBC spoke to me about the organisation’s hunger for clicks, editorial bias, self-censorship, Islamophobia and casteism in the newsroom.
"CAA and NRC is an existential crisis for me so that is why I had decided to document the Shaheen Bagh movement. There were lot of performance during the movement."
@MustafaQuraishi
during an exhibition on Qawwal
It has been two months since me and my colleagues were attacked by the Hindu mob. The police registered our complaint, but there has been no arrest and no subsequent communication from the
@DelhiPolice
. Maybe they are too busy looking for conspiracies behind traffic jams.
Since Indian government abrogated Kashmir’s special status, journalists in the Valley have been facing exceptionally hostile circumstances. Dozens of them have been summoned, interrogated & many have been arrested under draconian laws like UAPA & PSA.
Kashmiri media sends a strong message that it will not cower in fear: Daily newspapers have collectively decided to leave the editorial pages blank in protest of the murder of Shujaat Bukhari.
#kashmir
#ShujaatBhukari
Can
@JmuKmrPolice
explain what was the end result of the inquiry ordered by then SSP Srinagar Haseeb Mughal in this matter? The cop involved got prime posting as SHO Ram Munshi Bagh police station. Ordering action is just an eyewash?
#Kashmir
Areeba, daughter of Kashmiri journalist
#AsifSultan
, who has been incarcerated for over two years, holding a placard at her home in Srinagar. Sultan was arrested few days after he wrote a deep diving story for a local magzine on the life of Burhan Wani.
Picture: Hilal Mir
Kashmir has been used by every political regime in India. The name
#Kashmir
is a tool to fool the cow belt and get the things done for their own political purpose. What we are witnessing are the preparations for upcoming India's Lok Sabha elections.
.
@JmuKmrPolice
doesn't even know what police station they have and they're out to investigate the civilian killings and deliver the justice to the families.
#hydepora
#Kashmir
Here is my report on what played out within the
@BBCIndia
's office as it was being raided by the Income Tax department. Meanwhile outside the gates of the office popular media kept quoting "anonymous sources" about the BBC's crimes. via
@thecaravanindia
#Urgenthelp
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BREAKING: Indian authorities have denied claims of snowfall in Indian-administered Kashmir, terming the images, videos and reports as fake, malicious and intended to threaten national security. :)
#Kashmir
This is the REAL INDIA. The smokescreen of "Secularism" & "Democracy" sold across the world has fallen a long back. They openly call for the genocide of Muslims & know they can get away with it because of the impunity they enjoy.
Congregational prayers not allowed for the second consecutive Friday at Hyderpora Jamia Masjid, where
#SyedAliShahGeelani
was buried under the supervision of Indian security forces. The cop stationed outside told me that "IGP sahab ka order hei nimaz nahi hoogi"
#Kashmir
A punjabi tourist tells
@ETVBharatJK
, that Kashmiris feel stifled and cannot express their opinions. Kashmiris told him that “we could be targeted for what we say on Facebook.” He also says that the situation in Kashmir feels just like Punjab in 1984.
#Kashmir
#kashmirtourism
Let me put this on record, I don't need anyone to represent me. I can speak for myself when need be. Journalists reporting from ground risk so much. But many out there don’t hesitate to make a brand for themselves. Let journalists remain journalists not become influencers.
Prabir Purkayastha founder of
@newsclickin
and his partner Githa Hariharan after Enforcement directorate raid ended. The raid continued for more than 113 hours . Purkayastha says, "This will not stop us from doing our work. We will continue to cover people's issues."
#NewsClick
The owner of
@newslaundry
,
@madhutrehan
which sometimes exposes bigotry in Indian journalism, could not hide its own as with every passing day its upper-caste mentality & liberal khaki chaddi is increasingly exposed. Sometimes these “liberals” hide their chaddi under sari/pants.
Today marks 10 years since the execution of Afzal Guru.
In 2006,
@vinodjose
met Afzal in Tihar Jail. “Do you think justice is done? Would you like to hang a person without giving him a lawyer?” he asked Jose.
Read Afzal’s first interview from Tihar:
Hundreds of people attended funeral prayers of jailed RJD MP from Siwan, Bihar Mohammad Shahabuddin. The 53, died of COVID-19 at the Deen Dayal Upadhyay (DDU) Hospital in Delhi.
A kashmiri boy garlands, one of the graves of "
#1931Martyrs
" at Naqashbandh Sahib shrine commemorating "Martyrs-Day" in Srinagar, 2011. July, 13 is marks Maharaja Hari Singh's use of force in 1931 to quell protests against his rule, resulting in the death of 23 Muslims.
#Kashmir
It has been several hours since the statements of
@arbabali_jmi
,
@MeghnadBose93
,
@mdmeharban03
and
@meerfaisal01
were filed but unfortunately these fellow journalists are still waiting for the receiving of copies of their statements/complaints.