Jammu & Kashmir's Journalists Under Seige

Judicial acquittal too often means immediate rearrest

By: Majid Maqbool

Fahad Shah

After languishing in the Kot Bhalwal jail under India’s stringent Public Safety Act, which allows imprisonment without a trial for up to a year, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court recently ruled that authorities had deprived Fahad Shah, one of the region’s most prominent journalists, of his “constitutional and legal rights” and …