Srinagar, Sept. 24 -- Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Thursday condemned the assault on Kashmiri journalist Auqib Javeed by police last week, and termed the behavior of cyber police akin to "authoritarian regimes and unworthy of Indian democracy".

In a statement,Paris based media watchdog,said thatRSFcondemns the threats and violence, including being slapped in the face, to which Kashmiri journalist Auqib Javeed was subjected during a five-hour interrogation by cyber-police in Srinagar after writing about their intimidation of Twitter users.

"Such behaviour is unacceptable in a democracy," RSF said.

Auqib, an accredited journalist withKashmir Observer, was verbally summoned by the Cyber Police station on September 18 over his story ...