Kashmir Observer
{{Short description|Indian newspaper}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Kashmir Observer
| type = Daily newspaper
| format = Broadsheet
| editor = Sajjad Haider
| foundation = 1996
| language = English
| headquarters = Srinagar
| website = {{URL|kashmirobserver.net}}
}}
Kashmir Observer is a daily English language newspaper published from Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir since 1996.{{Cite web |last=Tripathi |first=Anurag |date=2016-10-03 |title=J&K Govt Shuts Down Newspaper For Inciting Violence |url=https://www.newslaundry.com/2016/10/03/jk-govt-shuts-down-newspaper-for-inciting-violence |access-date=2023-12-04 |website=Newslaundry}}{{Cite web |title=Besieged by threats and arrests, Kashmir's newspapers try to survive under Delhi's rule {{!}} Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism |url=https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/besieged-threats-and-arrests-kashmirs-newspapers-try-survive-under-delhis-rule |access-date=2023-12-04 |website=reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk |language=en}} Sajjad Haider, a past president of Kashmir Editors Guild, is its editor-in-chief.{{Cite news |date=2010-10-16 |title=Viewpoint: 'Killing the truth' in Kashmir |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-11553695 |access-date=2023-12-04}}{{Cite web |last=Lepeska |first=David |date=2023-05-31 |title='No thought, no progress'— when libraries began dying in Kashmir, educated started reading less |url=https://theprint.in/pageturner/excerpt/no-thought-no-progress-when-libraries-began-dying-in-kashmir-educated-started-reading-less/1603847/ |access-date=2023-12-04 |website=ThePrint |language=en-US}} Besides the print and online formats, its stories are republished by other media outlets.{{Cite book |last1=Rashid |first1=Abdul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iYRIEAAAQBAJ |title=Know Your State Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh |last2=Sultan |first2=Farah |date=2021-07-28 |publisher=Arihant Publications India limited |isbn=978-93-257-9092-6 |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2020-02-21 |title=Kashmir Observer {{!}} Scroll.in |url=https://scroll.in/author/12581 |access-date=2023-12-04 |website=Kashmir Observer |language=en}}
Controversies
Police raided offices of several newspapers in Srinagar including Kashmir Observer in 2016, and halted printing presses, confiscated printed papers due for delivery, and briefly detained printing and delivery staff.{{Cite web |last=Hameed |first=Mustafa |date=2016-07-18 |title=Indian authorities shut down media outlets in Jammu and Kashmir |url=https://cpj.org/2016/07/indian-authorities-shut-down-media-outlets-in-jamm/ |access-date=2023-12-04 |website=Committee to Protect Journalists |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |author=Scroll Staff |date=2016-07-16 |title=Major crackdown on media in Kashmir: Police raid newspaper offices, block cable TV |url=http://scroll.in/latest/811881/kashmir-unrest-toll-rises-to-39-as-tension-continues-in-the-valley-for-the-eighth-day |access-date=2023-12-04 |website=Scroll.in |language=en-US}}
Auqib Javed, a reporter with Kashmir Observer, was questioned by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in 2018 in the Asiya Andrabi case.{{Cite news |last=Joy |first=Shemin |title=Kashmiri journalist questioned in Asiya Andrabi case |language=en |work=Deccan Herald |url=https://www.deccanherald.com/india/kashmiri-journalist-questioned-681982.html |access-date=2023-12-04}}{{Cite web |last=migrator |date=2018-07-15 |title=NIA questions Auqib for 3 hours, summoned again today |url=https://www.greaterkashmir.com/kashmir/nia-questions-auqib-for-3-hours-summoned-again-today/ |access-date=2023-12-04 |website=Greater Kashmir |language=en-US}}
Mushtaq Ahmed Ganai, a reporter for Kashmir Observer, was thrashed and arrested by the police when he was out for work during COVID lockdown in 2020.{{Cite news |last=Raza |first=Danish |date=2020-07-31 |title=India arrests dozens of journalists in clampdown on critics of Covid-19 response |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jul/31/india-arrests-50-journalists-in-clampdown-on-critics-of-covid-19-response |access-date=2023-12-04 |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite web |date=2021-08-13 |title=One more blow to press freedom in India |url=https://frontline.thehindu.com/cover-story/pegasus-spyware-scandal-one-more-blow-to-press-freedom-in-india/article35790735.ece |access-date=2023-12-04 |website=Frontline |language=en}}