The Cockroach Janta Party squares off against the Indian State; Internet shutdowns continue in Pakistan-administered Kashmir; India begins to purge Kashmir of "anti-national" archival history.

Internet shutdown in Pakistan-run Kashmir continues; Pakistan sentences celebrated Baloch human rights activists to life imprisonment.

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Instagram blocks a video on data centres on the order of the Indian Govt; Nepali press freedom erodes further; A "cockroach people's party" gets its social media blocked on...national security grounds?; A Baloch film student goes missing; Mohammad Hanif pens an open letter to Junaid Hafeez.

India wants to amend its IT Rules for the worse; Pakistani journalists & the state of freedom of expression and the press.

Statement by Human Rights Orgs calls for Kashmiri journalist to be released immediately, unconditionally; Afghan Journalist Jailed for "Anti-Taliban Propaganda" is Released; Pakistani Authorities brutally crackdown on and jail Aurat Marchers.

Plus: Indian Police use AI to track, identify and expel minorities, Pakistani journalists in exile are tried in absentia & sentenced to life imprisonment.

“Pushing Muslims to the wall and making them suspect is a security risk in itself. No security threat is bigger than the idea of secular India.”

"[their] only crime is that they consistently spoke up for victims of enforced disappearances and false blasphemy accusations."