Reality Check: Is Media Under Siege in Kashmir?

Residences of four Kashmiri journalists were raided in the wee hours of September 9.

Residences of four Kashmiri journalists were raided in the wee hours of September 9. Such crackdowns on media have become the ‘new normal’ since the abrogation of Article 370. Harassment of media houses and independent journalists has grown since the new Media Policy 2020 was released in June last. Newsclick spoke with journalists in Kashmir to get a sense of the conditions in which the media is working there.