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Photo-Journalists based in Kashmir highlighting atrocities faced by them in a protest demonstration held on Residency Road in Lal Chowk Srinagar on September 03, 2016. (KL Image: Kashmir Photo-Journalist Association)
The valley based Photo-Journalists who were roughed up and beaten in Batamaloo earlier on Saturday, held a sit-in protest demonstration, on deserted Residency Road outside Mushtaq Ali Enclave-Press Colony.
The photo-journalists were carrying banners and play-cards. One of the banners read, “Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.”
Farooq Javed Khan, who works with European Press Agency (EPA) said, “we are protesting against Police.”
“They ruthlessly beat us up without any provocation. It was done to harass us and hinder our work,” he added. Khan also works for Rising Kashmir, a local daily.
Khan said that if government fails to take action against SHO Batamaloo, accused in the fresh beating of media personnel, they will come on roads and “chain” the CM’s residence.
Fearing more such attacks, the photo-journalists, who mostly work with Kashmir based newspapers, staged a sit-in protest demonstration after cops beat them in Batamaloo main chowk on September 03, 2016.
Renowned Photo-Journalist and Greater Kashmir photo chief, Habib Naqash said that they do not expect any action after the protest. “However, we protested just to express our anger.”
“Earlier, we would do our work freely,” Naqash, who started his career in early 1980s, said. “However, since Kashmir based media is honestly covering the ground situation, our free movement and space for work has been squeezed,” Naqash said.
On Saturday morning while Photo-Journalists were entering Batamaloo from main chowk Batamaloo, cops stopped them and with no regard for the curfew passes issued by the District Commissioner Srinagar abused them.
Meanwhile, a top cop came in a police vehicle and cops discussed something with him.
Soon, the cops came rushing and started beating the Photo-Journalists injuring a few of them. The media men later held a protest demonstration in the same chowk.
Today’s incident is one of the many incidents wherein Journalists, with no regard to gender, were abused and beaten by men in uniform in last 57 days of mass civil uprising.
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