South Asia Citizens Web

People’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism strongly condemns the brutal murder of Mr Avijit Roy, a Bangladeshi secular blogger and author on 26th February in Dhaka.

Blogger and writer Avijit Roy has been killed and his wife, blogger Rafida Ahmed Bonna, severely injured when unidentified miscreants hacked them at TSC of Dhaka University on Thursday night.

We welcome some initiatives your government has already undertaken, such as case-by-case reviews of those detained under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, the lifting of restrictions on media reporting, the end of Internet censorship, and the appointment of non-military personnel as governors to the North and East provinces. Also important were the removal of nongovernmental organizations from the oversight of the Ministry of Defence, and your pledge to form commissions to return land in the former war zones to their rightful owners. We hope your establishment of an inquiry into the 2012 deaths in Welikada prison is a shift away from the previous government’s unwillingness to tackle issues of accountability.

Chhattisgarh: Government staff may join RSS; no service rules under violation
By: Express News Service | Raipur | February 26, 2015 10:34 am
Kicking off a political storm, the Chhattisgarh government has issued a notification that allows government servants to join RSS and participate in its activities.
The Chhattisgarh Civil Services (Conduct) Rules 1965 prohibit a government servant from taking part in politics. “No government servant shall be member of, or be otherwise associated (…)

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