Reports of continuing assault on human rights defenders and on rights of people of Chhattisgarh.
South Asia Citizens Web
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India: Adivasi Leader Soni Sori Attacked / The darkness deepens in Bastar / Chhattisgarh govt cancels tribal rights over forests / Journalists, lawyers hounded
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Lawsuits against editor Mahfuz Anam - Attempt to stifle independent media’ in Bangladesh
19 February 2016the world should be worried by the concerted attacks on one of the leading newspaper editors in South Asia, Mahfuz Anam of Bangladesh’s Daily Star.
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India - Urgent Appeal for Action – Imminent Danger to Physical Safety, of forceful & illegally eviction of lawyers / women Human rights defenders at Jagdalpur in Bastar dist. in the state of Chhattisgarh
19 February 2016Human Rights Defenders Alert - India has issued urgent appeal to the National Human Rights Commission, and its Focal point of Human Rights Defenders, Secretary General of NHRC, UN Special Rapporteur on situation of Human Rights Defenders, Chhattisgarh State Human Rights Commission, Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, on our grave concern regarding two lawyers and women Human rights defenders Ms. Shalini Gera and Ms. Isha Khandelwal who are constantly facing threats to their lives by the local police supported group Samajik Ekta Manch in Jagdalpur city of Bastar in Chhattisgarh.
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Canard of Being "Anti-National" Being Deployed To Tar People in Institutions of Learning and Hindutva Agenda being Pushed - Left Parties Memorandum to The President of India
19 February 2016It is clear that by spreading the canard of being "anti-national" the RSS-BJP have mounted an all India attack against the Indian people. While strongly condemning the attack mounted by the RSS under the patronage of this BJP-led NDA government against the Jawaharlal Nehru University, we, the undersigned, see this as part of a larger design by the communal forces to carry forward their agenda in institutions of higher learning. This systemic pattern is clearly visible in the incidents in Film & Television Institute of India, Hyderabad Central University leading to the tragic suicide of Rohit Vemula, the incidents in IIT Chennai and now in Jadavpur University.
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India: Communist poet Makhdoom’s famous anti war song of the 1940’s — Jaane Waale Sipahi Say Poocho [ Ask the Soldier Where he is going? ]
19 February 2016The Hindustani song by Makhdoom "Jaane Wale Sipahi Se Poocho" questions the relevance of war, for those drafted to fight it wars.
