The Editors’ Guild of India (EGI) has expressed serious concern over what it described as the continued repression of independent journalism in Jammu and Kashmir, following repeated summoning and questioning of journalists by the police.

The Journalist Federation of Kashmir (JFK) has strongly condemned the recent actions of the Jammu and Kashmir Police involving the summoning of journalists for routine reporting, saying it amounts to an attack on press freedom and is creating a climate of fear in the region.

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Political parties in Jammu and Kashmir have voiced concern over the recent summoning of Srinagar-based journalists by police, calling the move an overreach and a threat to press freedom.

In Kashmir, censorship doesn’t arrive with bans or arrests. It arrives as paperwork. Journalists reporting on mosque profiling are being summoned, questioned for days, and asked to sign bonds promising restraint. Since 2019, this slow grind of summons and undertakings has normalised fear without formal gag orders. The message is clear: report freely, but be ready to pay for visibility.

The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal to swiftly and impartially investigate a series of attacks on journalists covering protests in Murshidabad district and to ensure the safety of members of the press, particularly as the state heads into elections in the coming months.