text: Home Newswire Mourning and Resistance in Kashmir
  Jul 26, 2016: 8:59 pm
  Protest in Kashmir in 2010 (courtesy of Kashmir Global via Flickr).
  Censorship and repression are not new to Kashmiris, and they have been applied in recent years to those seeking to break the long silence on Indian abuses there. Writer Arundhati Roy was charged with sedition in 2010 for pointing out the simple historical fact that Kashmir has never been part of India. In 2011, Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan was attacked in his office by the extremist Hindu nationalist outfit Shiv Sena, and his office was trashed after he expressed his support for the Kashmiri right to freedom. In 2011, anthropologist Angana Chatterjee and her partner Richard Shapiro were fired from their positions at the California Institute for Integral Studies for discovering and documenting mass graves in Kashmir. In 2010, they had been denied entry into India even though Chatterjee held an Indian passport. Radio host David Barsamian was deported from India in 2011 for reporting on the mass graves. Civil rights advocate Gautam Navlakha has been "deported" from Kashmir, which India claims is its "integral part." Kashmiris trying to protest in India are likewise "deported" back to Kashmir.