SRINAGAR, Indian-controlled Kashmir, July 16 (Xinhua) -- Authorities in restive Indian-controlled Kashmir Saturday imposed a gag on media by seizing newspapers and closing down cable television.
Police, during overnight raids in curfew-bound Srinagar city, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir, seized thousands of printed copies of different newspapers and detained employees of printing presses.
"At about 2:00 a.m. the police contingent raided our office and the press," said Mir Iqbal, an employee with the English daily Greater Kashmir.
"More than 20 policemen barged into GK printing Press and directed the employees to stop printing the newspaper. Within no time they stopped the machines and pulled out the plates."
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