Shujaat Bukhari

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Letters

CPJ calls on Jammu and Kashmir governor to release journalist Aasif Sultan

CPJ calls on the governor of India’s Jammu and Kashmir state to release journalist Aasif Sultan, who has been held by state police since August 2018, and drop all legal proceedings against him.

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Alerts
The police bodyguard of journalist Shujaat Bukhari is carried away after an attack in Srinagar, in Indian-controlled Kashmir, on June 14, 2018. Bukhari and two bodyguards were fatally shot as he left his office. (AP Photo)

Indian authorities must bring killers of Shujaat Bukhari to justice

New Delhi, June 14, 2018–Indian authorities must ensure that there is a thorough and credible investigation into the murder of Shujaat Bukhari, founder and editor of the English-language daily Rising Kashmir, and bring the killers to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

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Statements
The body of journalist Shujaat Bukhari lies inside a police control room in Srinagar on June 14, 2018. Bukhari, the editor of newspaper Rising Kashmir, was shot and killed leaving his office in the city's Press Colony. (AP/Mukhtar Khan)

Rising Kashmir editor Shujaat Bukhari killed in Srinagar

New York, June 14, 2018–The Committee to Protect Journalists today strongly condemned the killing of the editor of the English-language daily newspaper Rising Kashmir, Shujaat Bukhari, in Srinagar, Kashmir. Unknown attackers shot Bukhari today at close range in the city’s Press Colony, according to news reports.

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