India - Phone services cut for four hours in Kashmir Valley

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders reiterates its condemnation of India's readiness to restrict freedom of information, seen again when telecommunications were temporarily suspended in the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir on 15 August, preventing journalists from gathering or reporting news and information. On the state government's orders, phone companies suspended services in the Kashmir Valley for nearly four hours (from about 8 a.m. to 12 noon) on 15 August, India's independence day, on the (...)

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