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Media watchdog CPJ asks Bangladesh to ‘stop harassing’ journalist Rozina Islam, drop charges

Rozina Islam was arrested under the Official Secrets Act in May, after health ministry officials found her allegedly clicking a picture of a document with her mobile phone.

Stop targetting Aatish Taseer, Committee to Protect Journalists tells Modi govt

Targetting a journalist’s immigration status after publication of critical article shows BJP is intolerant of criticism and freedom of press, says CPJ’s Asia program coordinator Steven Butler.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.