South Asia Citizens Web

’We appeal to eminent people in and outside Kashmir...to come forward to help the girl and her family find a temporary shelter outside the valley’

An innocent young man is brutally hacked to death in the street by marauding thugs with machetes, and the government’s response is to effectively blame the victim. This is the outrageous and absurd situation in the supposed democratic state of Bangladesh, where a bloody campaign of terror is being waged against secularists and atheists who have criticized radical Islam.

Himalmedia co-publisher Kanak Mani Dixit was detained on Friday [22 April 2016] afternoon from near his office in Patan Dhoka in Kathmandu on the direct orders of the Chairman of the Commission to Investigate the Abuse of Authority (CIAA).

Highly respected professors face intimidation, threats and smear campaigns for deviating from the views of the Hindu right.

For too long the Haryana government dismissed the Murthal gang rapes as a rumour. And even now there seems to be an inexcusable laxity in the work of identifying the culprits and building a foolproof case against them, or even ensuring the security of witnesses and gang rape survivors who speak up.