A file photo of Kashmiri journalists browsing the Internet on their mobile phones inside the media center set up by government authorities in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. A rights group in Indian-administered Kashmir says India’s communications blackout following the scrapping of the disputed region’s semiautonomy last year is a collective punishment and digital apartheid. — AP
SRINAGAR, India: A prominent rights group in Indian-administered Kashmir issued a report Aug 25 calling India’s communications blackout following the scrapping of the disputed region’s semiautonomy last year “collective punishment” and urged the international community to question New Delhi over what it called “digital apartheid”.
The Jammu-Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society in its 213-page report described “harms, costs and consequences of the digital siege in Jammu-Kashmir from August 2019” when New Delhi stripped the region of its statehood and the semiautonomy that gave its natives special rights over land ownership and jobs.
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