South Asia Citizens Web

GENEVA (20 December 2018) - UN experts have expressed alarm about political violence, restrictions on freedom of expression and the rise of religious fundamentalism in Bangladesh ahead of general elections on 30 December [2018].

The mob violence in Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh (U.P), on 3 December 2018, instigated and engineered with malicious intent, which led to the cold blooded murder of a police officer brave enough to step forward single-handedly to pacify the mob, marks the most dangerous turn yet in the direction taken by the politics of hate in recent times. It shows that in India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, fundamental principles of governance, of constitutional ethics and of humane social conduct stand perverted. The Chief Minister of the state acts as a high priest of the agenda of bigotry and majoritarian supremacy – an agenda which now seems to take precedence over everything else.

The disappointing decision to ban the film has created a hue and cry among writers, poets, and intellectuals in the literary circles of Pakistan. The film ban is being hugely protested as it is considered a threatening attack to creative and artistic freedom of expression. It is therefore, appealed that the ban is dismissed with immediate effect.

documents from the Bolshevik Leninist Group [Bombay] digitised by sacw.net

Over 4000 workers gathered on the 14th December 2018 at Jubba Sahni Park in Muzaffarpur, Bihar to protest and resist the continued harassment of members of Samaj Parivartan Shakti Sangathan (SPSS). Workers and people from various national campaigns from Bihar and other states stood in solidarity with them. There have been continuous attempts to intimidate people who raise questions of corruption in MGNREGA.