| …a coalition of traders, transporters, lawyers, and students for the purpose of protesting more or less peacefully about the fact that India dares to holds on to half of Kashmir… |
The protest was scheduled for around 3pm at the National Press Club. When demonstrators gathered outside, police arrested them.
The Awami Action Committee has been organising protests in the Azad Jammu and Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
(AJK), which turned
The region is witnessing an overwhelming shutdown and wheeljam strike on the second consecutive day, a day earlier, amid intermittent skirmishes between law enforcers and activists in the state capital, Muzaffarabad.
Journalists on the scene began documenting the events with photos and videos, but police attempted to stop them, even trying to snatch cameras and mobile phones.
Minutes after the police were asked not to manhandle media personnel by senior journalists, police personnel forced open the doors of the press club, with some climbing the walls and entering the building as if "holy warriors were inside".
They attacked multiple journalists, smashed their equipment, and also stormed the cafeteria, beating journalists who were having tea.