Topic: Journalism

After spending five years in jail as an undertrial prisoner under draconian charges, Kashmiri journalist Asif Sultan was released only to be rearrested on Thursday evening under the draconian UAPA, in connection with a prior case of alleged unlawful activities filed by Srinagar district police.

11-year-old Sumayya Wushah, one of Gaza’s youngest journalists-in-the-making, says she is “not afraid” to report from the war-torn Strip, where more than 100 journalists have been killed by Israeli attacks since October 7.

Only 40 journalists remain in northern Gaza and they are besieged and isolated, with no means to send food or relief items to them, said Shorouk al-Assad, a member of the General Secretariat of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate.

The Government Media Office in Gaza has said on their Telegram channel that the number of journalists killed by Israeli forces has risen to 99 since the start of the war.

Malayalam television channel 24 News journalist VG Vineetha has been named as the fifth accused by the Kerala Police in the recent shoe-throwing incident at a bus in which Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan was travelling, while she was reporting on the event.

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Monday quashed the detention of journalist Asif Sultan under the Public Safety Act and ordered his immediate release. The...