London: Price of speaking truth in occupied Kashmir, ' The Kashmir Centre' has released a complete documentary report regarding Indian suppression on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day. Occupied Kashmir has been declared the most dangerous region for the journalists in the world.The report says on World Press Freedom Day, we remind everyone that India ranks 161st out of 180 countries in the global press freedom index. We remind the world that Indian occupied Kashmir remains one of the most dangerous territories on earth for journalists and name those martyred.According to the report, since 2019, at least 35 journalists have faced raids, threats, physical assault or detention. 308 deliberate internet and communications shutdowns in Kashmir between 2019 and 2024, more than 60 percent of journalists working across local press outlets have disappeared from the profession entirely. There is zero convictions of security forces for targeting journalists ever.According to 'The Kashmir Center' report, Indi a has built a sophisticated machinery for suppressing Kashmiri journalists. A 53-page media policy grants local bureaucrats sweeping authority to determine what constitutes a 'fake news' sedition or anti-national content, with no meaningful oversight or right of appeal. The policy's primary income mechanism, being government advertisement funding, is withheld from outlets that do not cooperate, forcing self-censorship or closure.The report says that the Kashmir Reader newspaper operated for three and a half years without government advertising and was forced to lay off 90 percent of its staff in 2021.According to the report, between 2019 and 2023, there were 3,662 arrests in Jammu and Kahsmir and there were 23 convictions.Ali Mahajan and his son Aijaz, calligrapher at Hamdard and Daily Aftab were murdered on 19th September 1992. Mushtaq Ali, photographer, Agence France-Presse and Asian News International was murdered on 10th September 1995. Ghulam Rasool Sheikh, Editor, Rehnuma-e-Kashmir and Saffron Tim es was abducted and murdered on 10th April 1996. Shujaat Bukhari, Editor, Rising Kashmir was murdered on 14th June 2018.According to the report, in March 2023, India's Minister of Information and Broadcasting was asked in parliament for details of journalists arrested under UAPA and other laws in the previous five years. His response? 'The government does not hold this data'. The National Crime Record Bureau keeps no consolidated statistics on journalists arrested or charged. The report says a state that arrests journalists whilst simultaneously claiming it holds no record or having done so has constructed a system of plausible deniability that is not accidental. It is architecture. The erasure of the record is part of the repression.The report says press freedom in Kashmir is not a professional issue. It is the mechanism by which every other atrocity is either exposed or concealed, what can not be reported can not be known. What can not be known can not be prosecuted, commemorated or grieved. The suppres sion of journalism in Kashmir is an attack on memory itself. The journalists named here were not threats to 'national security'. They were people doing what journalism exists to do: witnessing, documenting and telling the truth about power and occupation. For that, they were imprisoned, maimed and killed.