China’s ruling Communist party knows how to deal with a military regime along with the pro-democracy armed forces reflecting the aspiration of common people and Beijing has played the tricks in Myanmar (also known as Burma/Brahmadesh). The giant neighbour remains supportive to various batches of military rulers in the southeast Asian country and at the ...
Guwahati: Special envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General on Myanmar Julie Bishop seemingly has little regard to human rights, observes Progressive Voice, an umbrella organisation of pro-democracy Burmese outfits. In its weekly statement, the organisation argued that Julie Bishop made her first address to a UN General Assembly committee since her appointment in April and ‘her ...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, deplored that the record in the fight against impunity remains gloomy particularly this year as the perpetrators of violence and murders committed against journalists over the past days have enjoyed total impunity. On the eve of International Day to End Impunity for Crimes ...
India’s eastern neighbour Myanmar (also known as Burma and Brahmadesh) today faces a civil war following a military coup on 1 February 2021, which was orchestrated by General Min Aung Hlaing to dethrone democratically elected Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) government in Naypyitaw. The Buddhist majority nation is still under military ...
Commonly depicted picture of Bangladesh, where the Hindu and other religious minorities often face persecution by the majority Muslims, recently contradicted by some public rallies organized in Dhaka and Chittagong. As the south Asian nation was reeling under a visible political turmoil since July, at least four massive protest demonstrations took place in the country. ...
Geneva: After putting numerous troubles for professional media persons in Bangladesh with brutal laws at the background of relentless socio-political turmoil in the last few decades, the current interim government in Dhaka, headed by Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, starts actively considering setting up a media commission to ensure press freedom and accountability in the ...
Geneva: Another Pakistani journalist has been killed and this time it happens in Sindh province. Muhammad Bachal Ghunio, a reporter for Awaaz Television, was shot dead at Rounti area on 26 August by the miscreants. The victim’s family members lodged a protest demonstration in front of the senior police officer’s office in Mirpur Mathelo. Sindh ...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, strongly condemns the killing of two reporters during a military raid in Mon State of Myanmar and demands a fair probe to the incident that led to the death of Htet Myat Thu and Win Htut Oo on 21 August 2024. Burmese media outlets ...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, called the interim government of Bangladesh to initiate a fast probe into the murder of five journalists in the last few weeks and punish the culprits under the law. The south Asian nation witnessed a month-long unrest beginning the middle of July 2024, ...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses shock and serious concern over the fact that a number of working journalists were killed in the recent past across Bangladesh, as the south Asian nation witnessed a massive anti-government protests that snatched away the lives of over 300 Bangla nationals including ...
Guwahati: Now it’s official- Bangladesh’s lone Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus has been appointed as the head of interim government by Bangladesh President Muhammed Shahabuddin on Tuesday midnight following a series of discussions with the top military personnel, agitating student leaders and other law experts in Banga Bhaban. Prof Yunus, who was in Paris following ...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses shock and grief over the killing of a young reporter in the Bangladesh capital during a nationwide protest demonstration against the job-quota system in the south Asian nation. Hasan Mehedi (35), who worked for Bangla digital media outlet Dhaka Times, was killed while ...
Guwahati: After nearly hundreds of young people, precisely students, were killed by the government armed forces in liaison with the ruling party affiliates in Bangladesh, the country’s lone Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus made a clarion call to the international community including the United Nations to halt the murder of agitating Bangladeshi nationals across the ...
Geneva: Expressing utter dismay over the relentless killing of journalists in Pakistan, Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights organization, urges the highest government authority in Islamabad to investigate all relevant cases to unearth the truth and punish the culprits involved with the murder of scribes in the south Asian nation. The ...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign, the global media safety and rights body, expresses shock over the murder of an Indian journalist based in Bihar on Tuesday evening and demands a fair probe into the incident to identify the culprits for necessary legal actions. The victim, identified as Shivshankar Jha, sustained multiple knife injuries when he was ...
