カテゴリー: South and Central Asia
Critics say Narendra Modi’s Citizenship Amendment Act ‘has declared war on Muslims’Authorities have imposed an emergency law banning large gatherings in parts of India’s capital, Delhi, as nationwide protests escalated, injuring police and demonstrator…
New Indian legislation purports to help those fleeing persecution abroad – but deepens communal divides at homeThousands nationwide have protested against India’s new citizenship law in recent days, facing a brutal police response. This is arguably the…
Students have condemned as ‘barbaric’ the tactics of Delhi police after they stormed a university campus to break up a peaceful protest, injuring dozens. Footage shot by students showed police firing teargas inside a library and beating people with bat…
Indian police storm main library of New Delhi’s Jamia Millia University on Sunday, firing teargas at students barricaded inside. Footage shot inside the library shows people scrambling over desks and climbing through smashed windows to escapeIndia citi…
Women form human shield around man in New Delhi and shout ‘go back, go back’ as officers attempt to beat him with sticks. Protests have erupted across India against law to fast-track citizenship for everyone except Muslim asylum seekersIndia citizenshi…
Anger grows across country at new law which denies citizenship to Muslim migrantsStudents in Delhi have condemned their “barbaric” treatment at the hands of police who stormed a peaceful protest against the new citizenship bill over the weekend, injuri…
Former ruler, who no longer lives in country, was tried for imposing state of emergency in 2007Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s former military leader who seized power in a coup, has been sentenced to death for high treason and subverting the country’s con…
Protests are most significant show of dissent in nearly six years of Modi in powerStudent protests are not unusual in India. Nor is police violence. But the scenes of officers entering one of Delhi’s Muslim-majority universities, teargassing the librar…
Thousands chant ‘long live Assam’ during unrest sparked by MPs’ approval of a law that excludes MuslimsThe death toll from bloody clashes sparked by contentious citizenship law has risen to six as protesters in north-east India vowed to continue demons…
The Afghanistan papers revealed the same kind of US official groupthink that prolonged the Vietnam war – but where, over 18 years of bloodshed, is the outrage?It’s coincidental – but fitting – that the so-called Afghanistan papers were published in the…
Retailer plans US expansion and overhaul of Regent Street branch in battle to compete with key rivals Fake snow is falling and a hyperactive elf is hopping around on the pavement, geeing up the crowd pressed against the windows of Hamleys toy store, wh…
Protests spread to Delhi as BJP government accused of making Muslims second-class citizens Violent clashes erupted in Delhi amid allegations a new citizenship bill discriminates against Muslims and undermines the secular foundations of India, with prot…
Criticism of Aung San Suu Kyi’s defence of her country must not overshadow the issue at the heart of the case at the international court of justice: the ongoing suffering of Rohingya MuslimsAung San Suu Kyi’s decision to personally defend Myanmar in th…
BJP politicians have said ‘no Hindu family will have to leave India’ after national register of citizensIt was 81 days ago that Kamal Hussain Mondal, a 32-year-old brick factory worker from a remote village in West Bengal, took his own life. He had bee…
Leader’s silence ‘says far more than your words’, lawyer says during genocide hearingAung San Suu Kyi has been told her silence over allegations of sexual violence and rape carried out against Rohingya people in Myanmar “says far more than your words”,…