{"id":37055,"date":"2026-01-21T18:04:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T18:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=37055"},"modified":"2026-01-21T18:04:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T18:04:27","slug":"journalists-in-iiojk-asked-to-sign-pledge-vowing-to-keep-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=37055","title":{"rendered":"Journalists in IIOJK asked to sign pledge vowing to keep peace"},"content":{"rendered":"
Police in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) have asked at least three journalists working in the region to sign a pledge vowing not to “disturb peace” in the region, two of them told Reuters on \u200dWednesday.<\/p>\n

A third journalist, an assistant editor with The Indian Express newspaper, was summoned to a police station in Srinagar but did not \u200dsign \u200cthe pledge, the newspaper said in a report\u00a0published \u2060today.<\/p>\n

India has imposed several \u200brestrictions in the troubled region after revoking its constitutional autonomy in 2019, laying out rules for how the insurgency in the region is covered and reported.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Srinagar police did not \u200bimmediately respond to a request for comment from Reuters. The Indian Express, one of India’s \u2060most respected dailies, said its journalist was summoned four times between January 15 and 19 and asked to sign the pledge on Jan 16.<\/p>\n

“He has not signed the bond as \u200casked by the police. The Indian Express is committed to \u2060doing what is necessary to uphold and protect the rights and dignity of its journalists,” the paper’s chief editor, Raj Kamal Jha, said in the report.<\/p>\n

Two other journalists Reuters spoke to said they had also been summoned, but one of them was travelling and the other did not go to the police station. They declined to be named because of the sensitive nature of the issue.<\/p>\n

The journalists and The Indian Express said the summons were issued after they reported that police in the \u2060region were seeking information from mosques about their funding, management and budgets.<\/p>\n

The Press Club of Kashmir, an association of journalists in the region, said in a statement dated Tuesday that several of its members had been either summoned or advised by police to stop covering stories on profiling of religious institutions.<\/p>\n

“Using police powers to summon journalists over their legitimate reporting is part of a pattern of intimidation against \u200dthe media in Jammu and Kashmir,” Kunal Majumder, coordinator for \u200bthe CPJ Asia-Pacific Programme, a non-profit that works for press freedom, said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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