“The Editors Guild of India requests the state government to immediately lift the censorship and refrain from any action to intimidate the press,” it said. (AP photo)The Editors Guild of India on Sunday condemned the Jammu and Kashmir government for “unwarranted muzzling” of media in the state and termed as “unfortunate” the attempts “to shoot the messenger”. The statement said this is a direct assault on the freedom of the press in India and the Guild strongly condemns this unwarranted muzzling of the media. The Editors Guild said the police were sent into the offices of the local media in Kashmir in the wee hours on Sunday and copies of the newspapers that had just been printed seized and printing presses shut down. “It is extremely unfortunate that the state government, under fire for its poor management of the law and order situation in the Valley, has sought to shoot the messenger,” a statement from the Editors Guild said.

Source: Indian Express July 17, 2016 15:45 UTC