South Asia

Articles

• India: Abusing state power
  1 December 2021, by siawi3

  The malicious prosecutions that clog the dockets of criminal courts are not ones launched maliciously by private individuals. They are launched by the state, abusing the services of the police, intel agencies, and servile lawyers.

• Pakistan: Questioning oneself
  30 November 2021, by siawi3

  Do we care about discrimination against other faiths?

• Pakistan: Perceiving gender
  1 December 2021, by siawi3

  As with countless other countries, gender-variant people do not have an easy life in Pakistan. Expressions of gender nonconformity — be it through dress or speech or mannerisms — are shamed and demonised, first inside our homes, and then before the public at large, which bullies and berates it in streets and schools and parks and playgrounds. The Act of 2018 had finally offered a little reprieve — a small glimpse of hope and possibility.

• ‘Believing the Propaganda That the Government Follows the Law’ November 29, 2021
  30 November 2021, by siawi3

  Whistleblower David McBride faces life in prison for revealing war crimes in Afghanistan to the media.

• Afghanistan : les talibans demandent l’aide de l’Union européenne pour garantir le fonctionnement des aéroports
  30 novembre 2021, par siawi3

  « La délégation afghane a confirmé son engagement à garantir et à faciliter le passage en toute sécurité des ressortissants étrangers et des Afghans qui souhaitent quitter le pays »

• Afghanistan and Its Challenge to Feminism
  7 December 2021, by siawi3

  The Taliban’s takeover of power after the United States’ brutal twenty-year imperialist occupation is a catastrophe for women not only in Afghanistan but throughout the world. “We condemn the recognition of the Taliban government by any country under the claim that “the Taliban have changed and have become more moderate.” We stand with the women of Afghanistan against the Taliban, who, after reconquering power, have turned women and girls into sexual slaves for their soldiers”

• France : Réunion- débat sur la situation des femmes en Afghanistan et en Iran
  5 décembre 2021, par siawi3

  Les intervenantes seront Shoukria HAIDAR et Chahla CHAFIQ

• Pakistan : un Sri Lankais accusé de blasphème lynché à mort, une centaine de personnes arrêtées
  5 décembre 2021, par siawi3

  Plus d’une centaine de personnes ont été arrêtées au Pakistan après le meurtre d’un directeur d’usine sri-lankais battu à mort et immolé par le feu par une foule qui l’accusait de blasphème, ont annoncé samedi des responsables locaux. Ce meurtre sauvage, documenté par des vidéos relayées par les réseaux sociaux, a choqué, le premier ministre Imran Khan évoquant un « jour de honte pour le Pakistan ».

• Pakistan: Sialkot lynching: New footage shows a colleague trying to save Sri Lankan man; police arrest scores
  5 December 2021, by siawi3

  More arrests were made and condemnation continued to pour in over the lynching of 49-year-old Sri Lankan factory manager Priyantha Kumara Diyawadanage in Sialkot over blasphemy allegations.

• Pakistan: The mutawwa are coming
  5 December 2021, by siawi3

  ‘MUTAWWA’ is Arabic for the once-feared Saudi religious police. Tasked to implement behavioural standards set by oil-fuelled Wahabism, its wings have been clipped by the ongoing liberalisation sweeping the Middle East. Magistrates with armed police escorts are interrogating seven- to 12-year-olds on their Quran-reading skills.

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