Prageeth Ekneligoda, journalist, cartoonist, and political activist, disappeared 12 years ago on this day, somewhere between 8.30 and 9.30 pm on his way to a meeting with an acquaintance unknown to his friends or family. In this essay I briefly trace her legal struggle through three different governments—the second Mahinda Rajapaksa government (2010 – 2015), the Maithripala Sirisena and Ranil Wickramasinghe government (2015 -2019), and the Gotabaya Rajapaksa government (from 2019).
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Sri Lanka: Dissident Memory and Democratic Citizenship: Sandya Ekneligoda and Her Struggle for Justice
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France : Nice : deux personnes transgenres agressées à l’arme blanche
17 mars, par siawi3Le suspect, âgé de 19 ans, a été interpellé par un équipage de la BAC de Nice.
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Moscow police beat and torture women after anti-war protests
20 March, by siawi3Record numbers of people have been detained at anti-war protests across Russia since the country’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February. A phone recording captured details of police brutality against Russian anti-war protesters
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Between War and Terror: A Letter from Russia
21 March, by siawi3Since the very first day of the war, protests have been ongoing throughout Russia. The protesters include people of different ages and professions. Student and feminist initiatives deserve special mention. Our country’s foreign policy is war; its domestic policy is terror.
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Russie : Activisme anti-guerre après la répression dimanche
21 mars, par siawi3L’intensification de la répression de l’État a conduit à des manifestations à l’échelle nationale le dimanche 6 mars 2022 . Dans 69 villes russes, les citoyens russes sont descendus dans la rue contre la guerre. Le gouvernement a répondu sans relâche. Selon OVD-Info, 5 045 manifestants ont été interpellés ce seul dimanche ! Selon l’organisation OVD-Info, qui se consacre au suivi des arrestations politiques et des poursuites pénales, ce dimanche de répression a compté 13 502 manifestants anti-guerre depuis le début de la guerre.
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India: In the Face of Orchestrated Hatred, Silence Is Not an Option
28 March, by siawi3As journalists and media persons from all over India, we make this Appeal to all Indian institutions to step in and uphold their constitutional mandate in the wake of open calls from various quarters for attacks on India’s religious minorities, especially Muslims.The concerted amplification of hatred has been growing over the past years and months, as has the attendant advocacy of violence.
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Algérie : Zemmour n’est pas une exclusivité française
28 mars, par siawi3Zemmour est “Algérien” dans ce qu’il y a de pire en nous, pas dans ce qu’il y a de meilleur en nous, et le meilleur existe aussi. Zemmour ? C’est ce qu’il faut vite guérir en nous avant de faire le procès des autres.
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India: Communalist violence on the increase
30 March, by siawi3The Hindu right allows more and more murderous violence of minorities
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Stories and strategies for peace in Israel-Palestine and Western Sahara
30 March, by siawi3Jericho is 12,000 years old and Jerusalem is 5,000 years old. And they say, “This land is mine.” I mean, a lot of people lived on this land before Jews and before Muslims and before anyone else. We should understand that this land does not belong to anyone. We all belong to it.
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Israel-Palestine: LAND DAY 2022
30 March, by siawi3Resistance did not cease over the past 46 years, nor, unfortunately, did the land expropriations, neither in the territories recognized as the State of Israel in 1948, nor in those occupied in 1967. Land expropriations are a key instrument of the ongoing Nakba, the creeping ethnic cleansing of Palestine from Palestinians – regardless of their formal civic status.
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