SAFMA silent?

IN Media Watch Briefs | 02/09/2008

Rising Kashmir reports that Srinagar-based journalists are enraged over the attitude of SAFMA which has maintained silence on the censorship of local media in Kashmir. "They have been exploiting the tension in the region and making their own fortunes for the past several years" it quoted a senior journalist as saying. He accused the body of siding with the Indian government.

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