Meta has banned a prominent Muslim news page on Instagram in India at the government’s req­uest, the account’s founder said, denouncing the move as “cen­sorship” as hostilities escalate between India and Pakistan.

Instagram users in India trying to access posts from the handle @Muslim — a page with 6.7 million followers — were met with a message stating: “Account not available in India. This is because we complied with a legal request to restrict this content.”

There was no immediate reaction from the Indian government on the ban, which comes after access was blocked to the social media accounts of Pakistani actors and cricketers. “I received hundreds of messages, emails and comments from our followers in India, that they cannot access our account,” Ameer Al-Khataht­beh, the news account’s founder and editor-in-chief, said in a statement.

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