India’s restored 2G-only internet service does not function for basic email use.

Evidence

“It is very slow—and a good joke. India wants to deceive the world by saying we have restored internet, but we can’t even access email with 2G speed,” stated Sajeel Majid, a thirty-five-year-old restaurant owner in Srinagar. India’s de facto annexation of Kashmir has become the new normal for Roya and the 13 million people who call that sublime strip of land home. “Life is what it is now. Anything we do, if they [Indian military] don’t like it, can be said to be terrorism,” Roya revealed. “We are Muslim, and this goes against what Modi wants for this place.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 516

Categorization

• QUESTION: A specific evidence point on the post-2019 Kashmir internet lockdown: nominal restoration at impractically slow speed as a documented state tactic worth cross-checking.