'No space for critical thought': How detentions and surveillance are strangling academic freedom in Kashmir

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Kashmiris have been living with curtailed civil liberties and thousands of books have been removed from circulation On 3 September, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court in Indian-administered Kashmir quashed the preventive detention order of research scholar Shafat Maqbool Wani, ruling that owning books with controversial titles does not make a person a criminal or justify detention without trial. Justice Moksha Khajuria Kazmi said in her order that “owning books with grim titles does not make their