IIOJK: (Speakers denounce curbs on press freedom in IIOJ and K)

ISLAMABAD: World-fame experts belonging to various sections of life at a webinar lambasted Modi led fascist regime in India for using colonial tactics to gag the press and silence the critical voices presenting Indian atrocities into the international limelight.

According to a report, the webinar titled “Kashmir siege knocking at the doors of world conscience” was hosted by Kashmir Institute of International Relations.

Speaking on the occasion Qazi Shibli editor in chief of digital magazine Kashmiyate said that the Indian authorities use a mix of harassment, intimidation, surveillance and online information control to silence critical voices to conceal the crimes being committed against Kashmiris by the Indian state and its forces in the restive region.

Other speakers and journalists including UK parliamentarians expressed their serious concerns on the ongoing human rights violations in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

In the Webinar British parliamentarians Barrister Imran Hussain, Muhammad Yasin, Mr Jonathan Gullis, Mr, Anthony Josph Lloyd’, Catherine Constantinidies South Africa, and Ana Lundrinda from Geneva also expressed their views.