It’s not easy being a public-spirited activist in India these days.
South Asia Citizens Web
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India: Attacks on activists speak of pathological intolerance
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FORUM-ASIA Message on the Final Judgement of Teesta Setalvad and Javed Anand by the Supreme Court of India on 19 Feb 2015
19 February 2015“We welcome the approach of the Supreme Court in hearing this case as it rightly pointed out that liberties cannot be compromised for expressing dissent and had questioned the authorities on the need for custodial interrogation given that no major offences were committed,” said Evelyn Balais-Serrano
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Bangladesh: Let the Press Do Its Job - The Government is over-extending its hand
18 February 2015The recent case filed against the editor of The Daily Star together with two staff for publishing a photograph of a poster circulated by the banned group is
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India: PUDR report on Security camps and villages in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh
by , 18 February 2015PUDR has just released a fact finding report on villages in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh. It confirms insecurities and hardships of daily life in the war-zone—the low key, but ever present forms of repression routinized by the state through its forces and security camps.
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India: In Govind Pansare shooting, liberal writers see an attack on their values | Sudhir Suryawanshi
18 February 2015The shooting of Govind Pansare has sent fear rippling through the hearts of prominent writers in Marathi. They fear that the attack on progressive-minded Pansare was a message to rationalist people, writers and their supporters that if they continue to propagate their rationalist thinkings, then they, too, will be attacked like Pansare was.
