On 9 February, five journalists were baton charged, kicked and punched by police officers while covering a protest in Dhaka ... claims that the stall was selling books authored by Taslima Nasreen, who ...

International human rights organisations, in a joint statement yesterday, urged the government to uphold freedom of expression and opinion, highlighting alarming incidents of arrests, harassment, and ...

We, the undersigned human rights organizations, note with alarm the number of arrests and incidents of harassment and violence against individuals and human rights defenders exercising their right to ...

Kolkata: BJP's Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya on Monday urged central govt to facilitate the safe return of novelist Taslima Nasrin, who now stays .

BJP Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya’s zero-hour pitch on Taslima Nasreen isn't just about her return; it's a direct ...

State BJP President and MLA, B.Y. Vijayendra, stated in Bengaluru that the Karnataka government has not only decided to grant ...

Hundreds of protestors — many of them veterans — gathered Friday afternoon outside the Ohio Statehouse to protest the Trump administration's plans to fire Department of Veterans Affairs ...

By Thomas Smith Kate Bush, Damon Albarn, Annie Lennox and Hans Zimmer are among the artists who have contributed to a new “silent” album to protest the U.K. government’s stance on artificial ...

Students gathered in New York City's Washington Square Tuesday to protest the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist at Columbia University who was detained by U.S. Immigration and ...

By Alyce McFadden As hundreds of demonstrators made their way through Lower Manhattan on Tuesday to protest the detention of a prominent pro-Palestinian activist at Columbia University ...

Several women’s rights activists from Bangladesh told this newspaper that while women had always been vulnerable in the country, the situation had never been 'as bad' since Sheikh Hasina’s ouster last ...