Cancelling Passports Over Facebook Posts? Modi Govt's Testing New Intimidation Tactics On Kashmiris

The men, who belong to Poonch and Rajouri districts of the recently created Union Territory, currently live in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and were alleged to have posted “sensitive remarks” on Facebook.

The police registered FIRs against them for “promoting enmity between different groups on the grounds of religion, race…,” and under Section 66B of the Information Technology Act, which is “punishment for dishonestly receiving stolen computer resource or communication device.” When a Kashmiri physicist from Srinagar, who had published a Facebook post on 20 August alleging that the Indian army had beaten and tortured a fellow Kashmiri, heard the news, he started feeling worried.