The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists has called on the US government to press India to end a media crackdown and release six detained journalists, four of them from India-administered Kashmir. A statement from CPJ president Jodie Ginsberg on Wednesday ahead of a state visit to Washington next week by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said there had been an increasing crackdown on India’s media since he came to power in 2014.

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