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India: Another Kashmir journalist faces police ire for social media posts
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SRINAGAR, 08 February 2022, (TON): An Indian court gave a Kashmir freelance journalist two days to appear before it over a police complaint that he had acted against the public interest by sharing information on social media about a militant attack on a policeman.
The complaint against Gowhar Nazir Geelani comes days after the editor of web portal Kashmir Walla, Fahad Shah, was arrested for allegedly uploading on social media anti-national content to provoke the public to disturb law and order.
"I have granted him two days for appearance before the court" Executive Magistrate Fida Mohammad Bhat told Reuters of Geelani.
A summons issued to Geelani and seen by Reuters said that on Feb. 1, following the wounding of the policeman by militants, the journalist disseminated information on social media that would have endangered the life of the injured individual and other persons.”
Geelani is also allegedly accused of sharing information that raised "serious security and breach-of-peace concerns.”
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