Journalists assaulted in Indian-controlled Kashmir

New York, November 29, 2011-The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for an investigation into the November 25 attack on four journalists reporting on a protest in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

The journalists-AP Television News cameraman Umar Meraj, Al-Jazeera English online contributor Showkat Shafi, Getty Images photojournalist Yawar Kabli, and photojournalist Shahid Tantray for the Hindi-language daily Dainik Bhaskar-were covering a protest in the city of Srinagar when they were assaulted by paramilitary forces and the police, news reports said. Officials kicked and beat the journalists using their rifle butts, batons, and fists, witnesses said, according to news reports.

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Journalists Attacked by Police in Kashmir

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins partner organisations in the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) in expressing serious concern at the attacks on news photographers reporting street protests in Srinagar, capital of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, on November 25.

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Beating up protesters is not the answer: HRCP

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