[Reader-list] Censorship of Media in Kashmir

[Aditya Raj Baul]

Censorship of Media in Kashmir
http://www.countercurrents.org/aisf100710.htm

BHOPAL: July 10, 2010: “All India Secular Forum” has criticised the
censorship imposed by the State Government of Jammu and Kashmir. To
publish, broadcast and telecast news is our fundamental right.
Imposing Censorship amounts to depriving the people of their
fundamental right of freedom of expression. Censorship was imposed on
the country along with proclamation of Emergency on June 25, 1975. But
it proved to the counter-productive. If an individual journalist, any
newspaper or Radio or TV channel carries any news that jeopardises
national interest, it can be dealt with under the existing laws. But
to gag the entire media is a deplorable step.

LS Herdenia and Dr. Ram Puniyani, in a statement issued here, have
demanded immediate lifting of censorship in J & K so as to allow free
flow of information from and to that state. Let the Government rest
assured that freedom of expression, by equipping the citizens with a
legitimate and peaceful means of airing their grievances, would only
aid in controlling the combating the violence that is rocking the
state of late.