Police in Indian Kashmir have asked at least three journalists working in the region to sign a pledge vowing not to “disturb peace” in the region, two of them told Reuters on Wednesday.
A third journalist, an assistant editor with the Indian Express newspaper, was summoned to a police station in Srinagar, the capital of the federal territory, but did not sign the pledge, the newspaper said in a report published on Wednesday.
India has imposed several restrictions in the troubled...
Indian Kashmir police pressure journalists to sign ‘peace’ pledges, sparking censorship fears
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