{"id":74794,"date":"2019-08-07T02:51:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T21:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=74794"},"modified":"2019-08-07T02:51:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T21:21:41","slug":"rsf-calls-for-communication-restoration-as-kashmir-cut-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/08\/07\/rsf-calls-for-communication-restoration-as-kashmir-cut-off\/","title":{"rendered":"RSF calls for communication restoration as Kashmir cut off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Aug 6:<\/strong> Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called for immediate restoration of all means of communication in Indian-administered Jammu &amp; Kashmir, which the central government suddenly disconnected on 5 August.<br \/>\nThe region needs a free flow of information at this critical moment in its history, the RSF said.<br \/>\nJammu &amp; Kashmir became a news and information black hole in the space of a single morning. Mobile internet service was cut first. Then all online and phone services were disconnected. Even cable TV services are now inaccessible.<br \/>\n&#8220;Cutting all means of communication in Jammu &amp; Kashmir prevents its journalists from doing their job and, above all, prevents its citizens from having access to independent news and information, which is absolutely decisive at such a crucial moment,&#8221; said Daniel Bastard, the head of RSF&#8217;s Asia-Pacific desk.<br \/>\n&#8220;We call on India&#8217;s minister of home affairs, Amit Shah, to restore communications in the valley at once. The credibility of Indian democracy and respect for the rule of law are at stake,&#8221; Bastard said.<br \/>\nThe communications blackout in Kashmir has been accompanied by a sudden deployment of more than 45,000 paramilitaries. As tension mounted on the afternoon of 4 August, a reporter based in the state&#8217;s capital, Srinagar, told RSF: &#8220;It&#8217;s a war-like situation here. The government may terminate mobile and internet services anytime.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe reporter can no longer be reached.<br \/>\nIndia is ranked 140th, out of 180 countries, in RSF&#8217;s 2019 World Press Freedom Index.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Aug 6: Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called for immediate restoration of all means of communication in Indian-administered Jammu &amp; Kashmir, which the central government suddenly disconnected on 5 August. The region needs a free flow of information at this critical moment in its history, the RSF said. Jammu &amp; Kashmir became a news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-74794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}