Authorities in Jammu and Kashmir must take stronger measures to ensure the safety of journalists, and should investigate two separate attacks against staff at the Kashmir Observer on August 29, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

In an account that Farooq Shah, managing editor of the daily Kashmir Observer, and Muntazeer Yaseen, a copy editor and designer, gave in their paper, the journalists said they were driving to work separately on August 29 when protesters threw stones at their vehicles. Shah told the paper that when protesters in Srinagar saw the press decal in his car's windscreen, they began throwing stones which shattered the windows and hit his arm. Yaseen, whose car was also marked "Press," said he suffered minor injuries from broken glass after protesters used stones to smash the windscreen when he was driving in Pulwama.