1,000 Days and Counting: How Long Will Kashmiri Journalist Aasif Sultan Remain in Jail?
Despite several calls for his release by media bodies around the world, there seems no hope for the award-winning journalistâs return home any time soon.
Journalist Aasif Sultan has been detained since August 2018 in Jammu and Kashmir. Photo: Twitter/ Free Aasif Sultan Page.
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Srinagar: Every morning 64-year-old Mohammad Sultan phones his nephew, asking him to fetch milk from the market. Sultan has recently undergone heart surgery at the Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences and has been advised by the doctors to avoid strenuous activities.
US National Press Club and the National Press Club Journalism Institute today condemned the arrest of Bangladeshi journalist Rozina Islam and urged the court that is scheduled to hear her case on Thursday to release her. "At a time of international crisis, it's more important than ever to have independent watchdog reporters looking out for the public interest," said National
WASHINGTON The US National Press Club called on Indian authorities Monday to release a Kashmiri journalist who has been jailed for two-and-a-half years.
As a young boy Nicholas Trimble saw first-hand how brutal the political scene in Northern Ireland could be - and made a promise to himself never to have anything to do with it.
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