Editor jailed, staff evicted, website shut: An Indian newsroom’s fate
On the day its lights went out, The Kashmir Walla’s newsroom was busier than it had been in months.
The embattled news site’s remaining six staffers gathered Monday at their apartment-turned-office, joined by former colleagues and fellow journalists looking to bear witness to the end of an era. After a round of tea, the group began loading furniture into a pickup truck.
Three framed pictures of founding editor Fahad Shah – who has spent more than a year and a half in prison – were tucked carefully into a cardboard moving box.
Over the weekend, the Indian authorities blocked access in India to the paper’s
