Kashmiri women struggle amid Indian lockdown: A mother unable to get updates from the hospital about her premature newborn. A bride who couldn't have the wedding of her dreams. The photojournalist who risks double harassment by security forces.
In this Sept. 25, 2019, photo, Ateeqa Begum, mother of a 22-year-old Kashmiri detainee Fasil Aslam Mir, stands for a photograph inside her house in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. Begum has lived alone ever since her only son Fasil, in his late twenties, was detained on his way home after fetching medicines for her. “My son has been shifted to a jail in an Indian city and I have no means to travel there to see him,” she said.
Indian soldiers from outside the region flooded the streets and thousands were arrested. A curfew was put in place. The government cut of most of the region’s communications with the outside world, shut off the internet and telephone services. Even public transportation services were stopped. Zahida Jahangir’s son was born premature and weak. He was rushed from the clinic where he was born to the neo-natal intensive care unit in a children’s hospital across town. The lockdown made it nearly impossible to visit her son or even communicate with the hospital.
Photojournalist Masrat Zahra was covering the first Friday protest since the lockdown when a police officer threatened to kick her. She notes that Kashmiri women can’t leave their homes without a male companion out of fear they’ll be harassed by soldiers. Nevertheless, she is undeterred.
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