NEW DELHI: Terming the ban on social media networks in Jammu and Kashmir as “collective punishment”, two United Nations human rights experts today demanded that it be immediately lifted.
In a press release on the official website of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), David Kaye and Michel Forst asserted that “the scope of these restrictions has a significantly disproportionate impact on the fundamental rights of everyone in Kashmir, undermining the Government’s stated aim of preventing dissemination of information that could lead to violence.” (AGENCIES)
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