“He abused my mother, my sister and he threatened to book me under various sections of Indian law.” Kashmiri journalist Auqib Javeed says he was punished by the police for doing his job.
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00:00Initially I was, you know, slapped twice by a cop. He abused me. He abused my mother, my sister
00:07And he threatened me to book under various sections of Indian law regarding the story
00:30I tracked down some users and I spoke to them regarding the matter. They narrated some instances
00:46where they were, you know, questioned by the cops regarding their tweets over Kashmir and
00:52it was about the abrogation of special status of the erstwhile state and some, you know,
00:59some encounters were actually staged encounters reportedly here in Kashmir
01:13And next day I received a call from Cyber Wing of J&K Police. I was asked to be present
01:19in the police station here in Srinagar
01:27Initially I was, you know, slapped twice by a cop. He abused me. He abused my mother,
01:34my sister and he threatened me to book under various sections of Indian law regarding the story
01:49I defended my story. I defended my work. I told him that he was visibly, you know,
02:04angry with the headline and the picture that was used in the story. It was actually an old
02:12picture of the police station. So, I told him that the headline and picture is not my
02:20discretion. It's a job of editor. But he said that this is a fake story. This is a concocted
02:28story which you have done and you will be booked under law. And he kept abusing and
02:33abusing repeatedly and he was shouting me like anything
03:42But the thing is, I fear for my life. I fear that I might be booked in any case and I am not
04:01able to do work freely in a free kind of atmosphere and many of my colleagues earlier
04:07were booked under various, you know, terrorism law, terrorism sections