500 Days: Kashmiri Journalist Fahad Shah’s Incarceration Is An Exercise In Assumptions & Retribution

Five hundred days after the Jammu and Kashmir police arrested him, journalist Fahad Shah, 32, remains incarcerated for an article he did not write but published more than 10 years ago as the editor of The Kashmir Walla, a digital news magazine he launched that year aged 21. In a case anchored to allegations about the motives and operations of independent media outlets, there appears to be no evidence to support the allegation that the article led to an “increase in terrorism” across J&K and “motivated” young men to join the militancy.