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Kashmir group calls India’s internet ban 'digital apartheid'

by Associated Press
| August 24, 2020 11:30 PM

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — A prominent rights group in Indian-administered Kashmir issued a report Tuesday calling India’s communications blackout following the scrapping of the disputed region’s semiautonomy last year “collective punishment” and urged the international community to question New Delhi over what it called “digital apartheid.”

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