The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) asked the Libyan government on Friday to release television host Ahmed al-Sanussi from detention. The organization denounced al-Sanussi’s arrest, which occurred the previous day in Tripoli, expressing concern that his place of detention and reason for arrest were still unknown. CPJ’s Interim MENA (Middle East and North Africa) Program Coordinator [...]
Pakistan’s Punjab government proposed a ban on all social media platforms for six days, citing security concerns during thousands of religious processions starting next week from July 13-18, according to a Thursday notice from the Ministry of Interior. The ban proposal concerns the religious parade taken out by the minority Shi’ite Muslims of the country on [...]
The Indian Supreme Court on Wednesday disapproved the Manipur High Court’s decision to curtail hospital treatment for a prisoner belonging to the minority Kuki community, citing ethnic clashes in the state. While giving the order, the Apex Court expressed disappointment, “We do not trust the state…The accused was not taken to hospital because he is [...]
Delhi court sentenced renowned Indian activist, Medha Patkar to five months imprisonment on Monday in a defamation case filed by the current Delhi lieutenant governor, Vinai Kumar Saxena in 2001. Patkar is the founding member of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save the Narmada River Movement) started in 1985 in states including Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and [...]
The Delhi High Court put a final stay on the bail order granted by the trial court for the chief minister of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday. The trial court of Delhi, the capital of India, approved the bail plea for Kejriwal on June 20 with a bail bond of INR 100,000 in the money laundering [...]
The Indian government removed on Saturday the director general of the National Testing Agency (NTA), Subodh Kumar Singh, amid the ongoing National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate) (NEET-UG) scandal. The NEET-UG exam has been under heightened scrutiny since NTA released the results on June 14 and was accused of corruption and unfair practices. Shri Pradeep [...]
The Punjab, Pakistan government imposed protest restrictions on Friday citing the “law and order situation” and security threats posed by demonstrations. The order came at the time when Pakistan’s previous ruling party, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) had called for a nationwide protest to release its leader and Pakistan’s ex-prime minister, Imran Khan from jail. Section 144 [...]
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) urged Delhi police on Monday to end its investigation into three journalists from an Indian journalism platform named The Caravan. CPJ asked the police of India’s capital to investigate the people involved in attacks against the journalists during the 2020 Delhi riot. Shahid Tantray, Prabhjit Singh and a woman [...]
Vietnam has significantly expanded its outposts in the contested Spratly Islands during the past six months according to a report released Friday by the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI). AMTI, a Washington-based think tank at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, found that Vietnam has created “almost as much new land” in the islands [...]
The Iranian foreign ministry summoned China’s ambassador to the country Sunday over statements made during a China-UAE bilateral meeting appearing to dispute Tehran’s sovereignty over three islands in the Strait of Hormuz claimed by the UAE. Mohammad Ali Bak, the assistant minister and director general of the Persian Gulf at Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, [...]
