JammuPolice raided a closed newspaper office and claimed live AK-47 cartridges.
Since 2018, only 5 journalists have faced India’s anti-terror law, and trials rarely start.
India revoked Jammu and Kashmir’s autonomy in 2019, and by 2020 three of the Kashmir Times’ four editions had shut.
Police called the 19 November 2025 raid an anti-terror operation, though the offices had been shut since 2022.
Its editors revived the paper as a digital newsroom in exile in the US in November 2023.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 100+ reports worldwide
- CODA Story leans critical
- first-person investigative narrative documenting systematic persecution (asset seizures, spy embedding, harassment) and raid as retaliation
Sources: CODA Story