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

by Associated Press
| August 25, 2020 12:03 AM

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

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