Srinagar: A journalist body Friday condemned the alleged harassment of a photo-journalist by a police officer in south Kashmirs Anantnag district.
In a statement , Anantnag Working Journalists Association (AWJA) said: It has come to fore that a photojournalist, Muneeb-ul-Islam; working with the local dailies was threatened by the In-charge Sherbagh Police post.
The group alleged that the police official threatened him to implicate Islam in a false case of grenade hurling.
AWJA has observed that the police official has been repeatedly found beating, threatening and harassing photojournalists who put their life on line while covering violent protests and/or other volatile situations, it said.
The Association is repeating the demand and appealing to the police higher ups that the scribes be allowed to perform their duties without getting beaten or harassed at the hands of police officials, the statement added.
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