The Asia Desk of the Committee to Protect Journalists on Monday called on the Indian government to end what it has described as the "brutal crackdown on the media". It further asked the government to immediately release four arbitrarily detained Kashmiri journalists.

CPJ Asia's remarks came amid the G20 meeting on tourism in Kashmir hosted by India. As the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir became a host to the 3rd G20 Tourism Working Group meeting under India's G20 Presidency, three-day event held in Srinagar from May 20-22 received wide reactions from faces across different domains.