1. In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, normal life remained disrupted, today, due to a shutdown against the Narendra Modi-led fascist Indian government’s ongoing eviction and demolition campaign in the garb of anti-encroachment drive in territory.
2. According to Kashmir Media Service, shops and business establishments in Srinagar, Baramulla, Islamabad and other major cities and towns in the Kashmir Valley were closed while movement of traffic on the roads was very thin. Indian troops forced shopkeepers to open their shops. The shopkeepers closed their shops despite being threatened with dire consequences by the troops in case they failed to follow the instructions.
3. Forceful protest demonstrations were held in Jammu against the eviction and demolition drive. The protestors raised slogans against the BJP regime. Anti-India
4. demonstrations were in Islamabad and Muzaffarabad, today. The protests were organized by APHC-AJK and other pro-freedom organizations.
5. Illegally detained APHC Chairman Masarrat Aalam Butt and Shabbir Ahmed Shah in their messages from New Delhi’s Tihar Jail said that India was committing the worst violation of human rights by taking away the Kashmiris’ lands and demolishing their houses and criticized the criminal silence of international human rights organizations on such Indian brutalities. They said the Modi regime is according to a collective punishment to the Kashmiri people for demanding their right to self-determination despite the fact that their freedom struggle is in line with relevant UN Charter and Security Council resolutions.
6. New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists Asia program coordinator, Beh Lih Yi, in a statement slammed the Indian authorities for harassing journalists as Indian Tax Department officials continued their raids on the BBC’s New Delhi and Mumbai offices on the second consecutive day, today. CPJ’s Asia program coordinator, Beh Lih Yi, in a statement said, the raids in the wake of documentary on Modi smack of intimidation and the authorities are using tax investigations as a pretext to target critical news outlets. The raids come weeks after the BBC aired a documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s involvement in deadly anti-Muslim riots in the Indian state of Gujarat in 2002. Global human rights body, Amnesty International also said the raids come in less than a month after the BBC released a documentary that openly criticized Modi’s involvement in Gujarat massacre.
7. However, questions are being raised on social media over the silence maintained by the UK prime minister Rishi Sunak on the ongoing raids by tax authorities on the BBC offices of in India. Ashok Swain, an Indian origin academic and writer and Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at a Swedish university in his comment on the Twitter asked Rishi Sunak whether he is really the PM of the United Kingdom.