カテゴリー: Protest
Strength of PM’s crackdown shows her nervousness and that climate of fear is breaking down, say criticsHasan still has the metal pellets Bangladesh police fired at him lodged deep in his bones. Fearful he will join the growing ranks of those thrown beh…
Initially peaceful demonstrations turned violent last week with more than 150 dead and thousands injuredStudent activists in Bangladesh have alleged they were abducted by police and tortured for their role in the protests that have swept the country ov…
The country’s supreme court scaled back quotas on civil service jobs, which previously allocated 30% to veterans and relatives of those who fought in the 1971 Bangladesh war of independence, after widespread student-led protests and violent clashes in …
Court overturns ruling reserving 30% of government jobs for independence war veterans and their relatives Bangladesh’s top court has scaled back the quotas on government jobs that led to widespread student-led protests and violent clashes that killed m…
Army to be deployed to keep order after demonstrators free hundreds of prisoners and country is hit by serious unrestThe Bangladeshi government has declared a national curfew and announced plans to deploy the army to tackle the country’s worst unrest i…
Incensed crowd facing riot police set BTV building on fire as students demand end to discriminatory job quotas Bangladeshi students have set fire to the state broadcaster’s building a day after the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, appeared on the network…
Police fire teargas at university campuses as students demand end to discriminatory job quotasAt least two people died and thousands were injured after police fired teargas into crowds of protesting students, and paramilitary forces were deployed acros…
Activists from the award-winning Mother Nature found guilty on charges of plotting against governmentTen activists from a prominent youth-led environmental group in Cambodia have been sentenced to between six and eight years in jail in a case human rig…
Sophia Huang Xueqin, who reported on #MeToo movement and Hong Kong pro-democracy protests, sentenced along with labour activist Wang JianbingA Chinese court has sentenced the prominent #MeToo journalist Sophia Huang Xueqin to five years in jail and the…
Fears for the future of democracy and tolerance recede after authoritarian PM left reliant on coalition partnersIn the leafy surrounds of Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), a pocket of students sat beneath a banyan tree engaged in impassio…
Sanmu Chen appeared to write the date of massacre in the air as anniversary becomes increasingly sensitive in Hong KongHong Kong police detained an artist on Monday night after he appeared to write “8964” in the air with his hand, a reference to the da…
Events marking the day troops ended a peaceful protest with deadly violence are banned in China and Hong KongChinese and Hong Kong authorities have arrested or put under surveillance several dissidents ahead of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square M…
US says 14 protesters have been jailed for ‘peacefully participating in political activities’ that should have been allowedThe Hong Kong government has rejected western criticism of the conviction of 14 pro-democracy activists for subversion, calling i…
Thousands protest against bill which would give parliamentarians special powers to question anyoneLai Ching-te’s first day as president of Taiwan has been marked by large protests against the opposition over a controversial bill in parliament, foreshad…