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"I met Raqib Naik, a journalist who had fled his native India, at a coffee shop
in suburban Maryland. We sat at the same metal table where he once discussed
the prospect of his assassination with FBI agents.
Naik is a Muslim from Jammu and Kashmir, India’s only Muslim-majority state. In
August 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi revoked the state’s longstanding
self-determination rights and temporarily imposed martial law. Indian officials
arbitrarily detained thousands of Kashmiris, including many journalists.
Through it all, Naik did his best to convey the reality in Kashmir to the
outside world — a firsthand account of what was really going on in what’s often
termed “the world’s largest democracy.”
On August 15, 10 days after the crackdown in Kashmir began, Naik received the
first of three visits from Indian military intelligence officers who
interrogated him about his reporting. The harassment forced him underground; he
eventually fled to the United States in the summer of 2020.
But Modi wouldn’t let him go that easily."
Via Dave Farber’s
Interesting People list.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
