Citizens of Nowhere: One Million Rohingya Still Without Rights, Status or Justice

Rohingya refugees entering Bangladesh after being driven out of Myanmar, 2017.(PC: Wikimedia Commons)

Refugees lack proper sanitation and live in emergency conditions, but still they choose to remain rather to return under a repatriation deal without guarantees of justice for past (or potential) crimes against them.

Meghalaya HC Sets Aside ‘Hindu Rashtra’ Order; Calls It Inconsistent With Constitutional Principles

(Photo: Facebook)

Last year, Justice Sudip Ranjan Sen of the Meghalaya HC had passed the order saying India should’ve been declared a ‘Hindu country’ at the time of independence. 

Facebook Posts Trigger More Arrests in Bangladesh, Worrying Netizens

Poet Henry Swapon and lawyer Imtiaz Mahmood. Collage from photos shared widely on social media.

The Digital Security Act criminalizes various types of online speech.

পশ্চিমবঙ্গ: এই প্রথমবার নির্বাচনে যে এলাকাগুলিতে মোবাইল ফোনের নেটওয়ার্ক কাজ করে না সেখানে হ্যাম রেডিওর মাধ্যমে যোগাযোগ স্থাপন করা হবে

(Credit: Shayan Ghose [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0])

উত্তর ২৪ পরগনা ও সুন্দরবনের বেশ কিছু এলাকায় মোবাইল ফোনের নেটওয়ার্ক একেবারেই কাজ করে না।

These Women Are Finding Creative Ways To Defy Patriarchy In Bangladesh

Tassafy Hossain, Dhaka, 2019. | Photo: Muhmmad Murtada, British Council

On Dhaka’s streets and stages, women tell their stories – about issues from violence to sexuality to working conditions. And they demand to be heard.

Netizen Report: Both Bangladesh and South Korea are Waging a ‘War on Porn’ — and Paving the Way for Political Censorship

Photo by Cory Doctorow. (CC BY-SA 2.0)

South Korea and Bangladesh are blocking porn and “obscene” content, Venezuela is blocking YouTube, and Uzbekistan has finally stopped blocking Facebook and VK.

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