ACHR urges President of UN Human Rights Council for removal of UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar Professor Yanghee Lee for bias

BANGLADESH: IS CHIEF ADVISOR DR. YUNUS THE PROVOCATEUR IN CHIEF FOR THE ATTACKS ON RELIGIOUS MINORITIES?

The Rights and Risks Analysis Group (RRAG), today in a communication urged UN Secretary General, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Heads of Diplomatic Missions and International Organizations in Dhaka to  intervene with the Chief Advisor of the Interim Government of Bangladesh against repeated emboldening of the religious fundamentalists belonging to the  majority Muslims by […]

IPI, IFJ urge Modi to prevent increasing use of sedition laws against journalists, Deccan Herald

Deccan Herald 22 October 2020 Two international media organisations have shot o a joint letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take urgent action to “prevent the increasing use” of sedition laws and other legal sanctions against journalists and ensure that they “can work without harassment and fear of reprisal”. Two international media organisations have […]

Freedom in chains, The Telegraph

By Ram Chandra Guha, The Telegraph 20 June 2020 Politics and Play: The perilous state of press freedom in India today In 1824, the Government of Bengal (which was then in the hands of the East India Company) issued an Ordinance placing strict curbs on the freedom of the press. This gave the government the […]