Kashmiri photojournalist Masrat Zahra has been arrested & booked under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) & a FIR registered against her for social media posts that glorify ‘anti-national’ activities & have the criminal intent to incite youth to anti-national activities. She is a journalist of international renown whose work has appeared in leading media venues & who was arrested only for doing her job of reporting reality in occupied Kashmir.
An international clamor & defense must be organized for this courageous journalist in concert with a defense campaign for journalist Aasif Sultan who was arrested in September 2018 & remains in jail also for the crime of reporting reality in occupied Kashmir.
This is an article from September 2019 about Masrat in her own words which includes a gallery of her remarkable work: