Srinagar: Friday, May 2nd, 2014: Several Kashmir journalists said that police harassed and barred them from doing their professional duty during a protest in Srinagar on Friday.
The journalists said that policemen hurled abused them and they were chased. “We went to Hyderpora in the afternoon. There were protests. But police stopped us from covering them. They abused us and also chased us,” Tauseef Mustafa, who works as a photographer with AFP said. He said police forced us to leave the spot.
Another photojournalist, who was also at Hyderpora, said that police men chased the media men without any reason. “We were surprised as if we were criminals. We were just doing our professional job,” he said.