Harassed by cops

IN Media Watch Briefs | 09/07/2009

Srinagar-based working journalists are protesting against police threats to Fayaz Bukhari of NDTV and Rasheed Rahi of CNS news agency. Bukhari was threatened by no less than the DGP Kashmir Kuldeep Khoda, for reporting on the July 8 allegations by the family of Asrar that the youth disappeared in police custody. And an FIR was lodged against Rahi alleging that he created panic over the Shopian incident of double rape and murder.

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