Kashmir editors demand to know charges against arrested scribe
Monday - September 3, 2018 6:50 pm ,
Category : INDIA
Srinagar Sep 3 (IANS) The Kashmir Editors Guild (KEG) on Monday asked the Jammu and Kashmir Police to make public the charges against an arrested Srinagar-based journalist Aasif Sultan.
Sultan was formally arrested after six days in detention.
"There are disturbing reports about reporters being asked to disclose (their) sources " the Guild said.
"The law enforcing agencies must understand the reality that every journalist s laptop will have incriminating material because data collection is the fundamental activity of reporters.
"KEG reiterates that a reporter cannot be forced to reveal his sources and it is considered illegal across democracies of the world " a statement from the editors body said after a meeting here.
--IANS
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Sultan was formally arrested after six days in detention.
"There are disturbing reports about reporters being asked to disclose (their) sources " the Guild said.
"The law enforcing agencies must understand the reality that every journalist s laptop will have incriminating material because data collection is the fundamental activity of reporters.
"KEG reiterates that a reporter cannot be forced to reveal his sources and it is considered illegal across democracies of the world " a statement from the editors body said after a meeting here.
--IANS
sq/mr/qd
