Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy takes on a terrifying question: How does the Taliban convince children to become suicide bombers? Propaganda footage from a training camp is intercut with her interviews of young camp graduates. A shocking vision.
Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy takes on a terrifying question: How does the Taliban convince children to become suicide bombers? Propaganda footage from a training camp is intercut with her interviews of young camp graduates. A shocking vision.
In a ruling important for human rights and free expression advocates, and for all those using the internet for communications, education and campaigning, the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh directed the Government to show cause why Sections 46 and 57 of the Information Communication Technology Act 2006 should not be declared ultra vires the Constitution, and in violation of fundamental rights to freedom of expression and freedom of association.
Section 46 allows for blocking of websites on various grounds, including if they involve incitement to any offence as defined under the Act. Section 57 provides penalties of a fine of upto one crore takas or ten years imprisonment, for various acts including those which involve any person ‘reading/seeing /listening to any website or electronic communication and thereby being encouraged to become immoral (‘nitibhroshto’) or dishonest (‘oshoth’), or the use of websites or electronic communications which ‘hurt the image of the state’.
The petition was initially filed when the Govt had imposed a ban on Facebook in June 2010.
The Govt has four weeks to respond.
A delegation of some civil society organisations visited the Malir District Jail to get the signatures of Indian fishermen on the Vakalatnama to be used for a petition being filed in the Supreme Court of Pakistan to release the detained Indian fishermen who have completed their terms in jail or are kept in the jails without any trial. Civil society organisations of both India and Pakistan decided in April this year to approach the Supreme Courts of the respective countries for release of detained fishermen.
The assassination of the moderate nationalist, Secretary-General of the Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M), Habib Jalib Baloch, in broad daylight in Quetta reflects what may be an emerging pattern in the conflict-ridden, largest but poorest province of Pakistan. Three days before Jalib’s death, the assassination of another moderate nationalist leader, Maula Bux Dasti of the National Party, proved to be a portent of things to come.
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