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• Pakistan : Après 8 ans d’emprisonnement pour blasphème, Asia Bibi est enfin acquittée
  3 février 2019, par siawi3

  De nombreux manifestants s’étaient farouchement opposés à sa libération. La justice a eu le dernier mot. Pour Saif-ul-Mulook, l’avocat d’Asia Bibi, la libération de sa cliente « ouvrira une nouvelle voie dans les poursuites pénales et les procès pour blasphème. »

• Afghanistan: With Kabul wedding attack, Isis aims to erode Taliban supremacy
  21 August 2019, by siawi3

  A suicide bomber at a wedding celebration, detonating his device as children danced and the happy couple completed their marriage rituals. In an instant more than 60 of the 1,000 guests were dead, hundreds injured. As the US and Taliban negotiate peace, Isis sees a chance to sow fresh chaos in Afghanistan.

• India: Zionism and Hindutva 2.0: Building Resistance through Joint Struggles
  20 August 2019, by siawi3

  Right wing populism has been on a sharp rise across the world. From Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, to Donald Trump in the US to Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines- we are witnessing the deepening of majoritarianism with free market capitalism globally.

• Pour le premier ministre du Pakistan, le monde est aussi inactif vis-à-vis du Cachemire que lors de la montée d’Hitler
  12 août 2019, par siawi3

  L’inaction de la communauté internationale face aux événements se déroulant au Cachemire rappelle le silence ayant entouré la montée du nazisme et l’émergence d’Hitler en Allemagne dans les années 1930, a affirmé dimanche le premier ministre pakistanais Imran Khan. Le RSS compterait plus de 5 millions de membres et défend l’idée que l’Inde appartient aux hindous. Il a été interdit plusieurs fois depuis l’indépendance de l’Inde, en vain. C’est d’ailleurs l’un de ses anciens membres qui a assassiné Gandhi en 1948, l’accusant de sympathies musulmanes. Il a également été interdit après avoir incité à la destruction, en 1992, de la mosquée de Babri, qui avait entraîné d’effroyables émeutes.

• India: Jammu and Kashmir: the Legitimacy of Article 370
  20 August 2019, by siawi3

  The recent unilateral decision of Prime Minister Modi’s government to revoke Article 370, which guaranteed the special status of Jammu and Kashmir; dismemberment of the State, and its diminishment are flagrant violations of the sovereign Constitution of India. These maneuvers jeopardize the federal structure of India.

• Bangladeshi blogger named on hitlist warned: ’You will be next’
  30 May 2015, by siawi3

  Ananya Azad among the writers concerned for their safety after murder of three men who criticised intolerance and religious fundamentalism; there is a hitlist containing the names of 84 atheist bloggers.

• India: “The values of Hindu nationalism have become the default setting of Indian politics”
  6 August 2019, by siawi3

  Since 2014, the ruling Bhartiya Janata Party has unleashed forces that are irreversibly transforming the country. Indian democracy, honed over decades, is now the chief enabler of Hindu extremism. Bigotry has been ennobled as a healthy form of self-assertion, and anti-Muslim vitriol has deluged the mainstream, with religious minorities living in terror of a vengeful majority. A year before Modi was born, at a time when Muslims were still fleeing or being driven out of India for Pakistan, the poet Abdul Hayee, who wrote under the name Sahir Ludhianvi, made the contrariwise journey, leaving Pakistan for India. It was an audacious act of reclamation.

• India: Assam: Suicide fearing loss of Citizenship
  6 August 2019, by siawi3

  In the last few years, the Kafkaesque process of determining citizenship has created unprecedented stress and apprehension in millions of people in Assam.

• India: National Education Policy: RSS Outfit Proposes Inclusion of Vedic Maths in Curriculum
  15 August 2019, by siawi3

  In the past few years, several leaders have claimed that ancient Indian texts have been unfairly discarded in favour of modern scholarly texts. Concerns have also been raised that the government’s drive to discuss and research “the Indian knowledge system” has fuelled a rise of pseudoscience and pseudoscientific claims in the country.

• India’s Mangled Economy
  20 August 2019, by siawi3

  Mid-August is when the subcontinent celebrates independence from Britain. Born in a cauldron of hate 74 years ago, India today is again filling it to the brim.

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