On BBC World News TV, Mahrukh Mohiuddin, director of Dhaka-based University Press Limited and Arif Rahman, a blogger from Bangladesh currently living in London, discuss the attacks on free speech, including the hacking to death in Dhaka of Faisal Arefin (Dipan), who published writings by the Bangladeshi-American secular blogger/writer Avijit Roy, also hacked to death in Dhaka this February. Faisal Arefin’s father gives his reaction too.
South Asia Citizens Web
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BBC Report: Publisher, blogger discuss attacks on free speech in Bangladesh
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Indian Christians Condemn Growing Intolerance in the Country
2 November 2015We the undersigned Indian Christians as citizens of our country India and as Christians in unequivocal terms denounce the growing intolerance in the country.
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Pakistan: Fundamentalist Islami Jamiat-e-Talba are a menace across the universities of the country
2 November 2015For decades activists of the notoriously thuggish fundamentalist Islami Jamiat-e-Talba (IJT), the student wing of the Jamat-e-Islami has carried out its hooliganism with impunity, terrorising students who are legal adults and not beholden to have their behaviour policed according to the precepts of some moralising band of roving fanatical vigilantes.
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India: ’Queer movement has to look beyond LGBT rights’ (report in The Times of India)
2 November 2015"The LGBT community should have been out on the streets after two dalit boys were killed or a dalit man was burned for entering a temple. Sexuality is just part of the movement, there is much more to do," said Sumathi Murthy, a musician and LGBT activist.
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India: Three audio recordings from Pratirodh - A convention of writers and intellectuals
by , 1 November 2015recordings of interventions by Prof. Irfan Habib, Ashok Vajpeyi and Romila Thapar at Pratirodh: A convention of writers and intellectuals held in Delhi on 1 st Nov 2015. (recordings via sacw.net audio archive)
