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

‘No space for critical thought’: How detentions and surveillance are strangling academic freedom in Kashmir Submitted by MEE contributor on Fri, 10/23/2026 - 09:14 Kashmiris have been living with curtailed civil liberties and thousands of books have been removed from circulation Kashmiri Muslim women walk past a mural in Srinagar, 9 October 2026 (Tauseef Mustafa/AFP) Off 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…