“When we heard that people are unable to access our website, initially, we thought it was a technical problem and we started approaching it in that manner. But, after three days, it became clear that this had been done deliberately,” Parmjeet Singh, editor of Punjab-based news website Sikh Siyasat, told The Quint.

International civil rights and non-profit organisation United Sikhs found the timing of the blocking of #Sikh “suspicious”.

“The timing of this censoring by Facebook is suspicious as the hashtag in question has been taken down when the world is expressing solidarity on the 36th anniversary of the June 1984 Sikh genocide.”

– United Sikhs

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