29 August 2008

Alert

Newspaper correspondent's home raided


Incident details

Shujaat Bukhari

journalist(s)

raided

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(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders deplores the 26 Augusty 2008 raid by members of the counter intelligence agency on the home of Shujaat Bukhari, "The Hindu" daily newspaper's correspondent in Srinagar. Bukhari, who was not at home at the time, was told by his family that the agents were looking for two Kashmiri leaders.

No newspapers are on sale in Kashmir for the third day running as a result of a curfew imposed by the authorities to prevent demonstrations.



Source

Reporters Without Borders
47, rue Vivienne
75002 Paris
France
rsf (@) rsf.org
Fax:+33 1 45 23 11 51

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