South Asia

Media under siege in Sri Lanka

The Committee to Protect Journalists protested the arrest of Sri Lanka newspaper editor Nadesapillai Vidyatharan on charges of collaboration with the Tamil Tigers, calling it part of a pattern of repression.

South Asia

Bangladesh Rifles mutiny militarizes India border

India’s Border Security Force remains on high alert after a two-day mutiny by the Bangladesh Rifles left scores dead. Unconfirmed reports in the Indian press link the mutiny to Pakistani intelligence.

South Asia

India: tribespeople march against mining company

Some 7,000, including hundreds of Dongria Kondh tribespeople, marched in India’s Orissa state against British mining firm Vedanta, which plans an open-pit mine on the top of the hill tribe’s sacred mountain.

South Asia

Pakistan boasts post-Mumbai sweeps

Pakistani interior minister chief Rehman Malik boasted at an Islamabad press conference that authorities have arrested more than 120 in a crackdown on groups allegedly linked to the Mumbai attacks.