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A group of activists in Bangladesh participate in a protest holding photographs of missing persons. They are carrying signs with demands for justice and accountability, one of which reads in English, 'Where are they? Bring them back — alive or accountable! Maayer Daak.' Another sign in Bengali asks why the killers are still free. The protest appears to be organised by families of victims who have killed or disappeared, likely in cases of enforced disappearances.
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Cyrus Naji
The Muhammad Yunus-led interim government, constrained by its own limitations and a volatile political climate, risks continuing the abuses of the Sheikh Hasina regime in its efforts at transitional j ...
Water flows through an Indian dam on the Jhelum in the wake of the Pahalgam attack. Geography has provided Pakistan with water security it has failed to recognise, instead indulging in paranoid fantasies of India cutting off its river waters.
Pakistan’s paranoia over India suspending the Indus Waters Treaty after the Pahalgam attacks is unfounded, lacking an understanding of geography, hydrology or its water security
A parade in Guwahati in support of Operation Sindoor, India’s strikes against Pakistan after the Pahalgam attack. Indian public discourse has narrowed to where it can envisage an end to terrorism only via the elimination of every last terrorist, even as the meaning of that term is indiscriminately expanded.
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Rahul Rao
Operation Sindoor, India’s strikes on Pakistan after the Pahalgam attack, set off unprecedented warmongering, with the media, the Hindu Right and even the opposition baying for an India–Pakistan war
Police crack down after eight nights of youth protests in Malé following a woman’s unexplained fall from an apartment building. The protests represent a new generation raising its voice against the Maldives’s compromised political culture.
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J J Robinson
A woman’s unexplained fall from a Malé building has set off protests against “nepo-babies” and an alleged cover-up as a new generation confronts the Maldives’s political culture
Four men standing in a row holding protest signs in Dhaka. The man in the centre holds a sign that reads 'JOURNALISM IS NOT CRIME' in red letters. The other signs are written in Bengali, with messages calling for freedom of the press. The protest appears to be taking place outdoors, with trees in the background.
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Cyrus Naji
Under Mohammad Yunus’s interim government, a Media Reform Commission has set out to address long-standing problems facing journalists in Bangladesh – but old threats and patterns of control remain
An old black and white photograph of two men in white shirts and ties crouching on the ground near a tyre. The man on the right is holding a small container while the other on the left appears to be handling an object. The setting is a semi-enclosed space, with a white wall in the background and a leafy vine partially obscuring the left side of the frame.
Why I confronted the former president with the Batalanda Commission report during his Al Jazeera interview – and why Sri Lanka must face up to the torture, disappearances and human rights abuses of th ...
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