Kashmir journalist arrested over ‘anti-national’ content

Police in Indian-administrated Kashmir have arrested a young journalist on accusations of publishing “anti-national content”, police said, in a widening crackdown against media in the disputed region. Fahad Shah, the editor of news portal Kashmir Walla, was summoned for questioning at a police station in southern Pulwama town on Friday and later arrested there, police said. In a statement late on Friday confirming Shah’s arrest, police said he was identified among “some Facebook users and portals” that had published “anti-national content”, without specifying the content. It said such content …

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