From shahidul at drik.net  Thu Mar  4 05:38:34 2004
From: shahidul at drik.net (Shahidul Alam)
Date: Thu Mar  4 05:41:31 2004
Subject: [ShahidulNews] Updated Banglarights site
Message-ID: <4163.82.39.90.27.1078357114.squirrel@webmail.drik.net>

Banglarights, the Bangladesh Human Rights Network, is an independent
platform for media professionals and human rights activists who believe in
a society respectful of the rights of all its members. The platform will
form indigenous criteria for human rights practices, taking into account
the realities of majority world countries. It will champion principles of
democracy, give voice to people at grassroots levels and address social
inequalities and domination at national and international levels.

The site has been redesigned and the new editor Sameera Huque is looking
for volunteers. Please contact her directly at Sameera@bd.drik.net

One of the new features in Banglarights is the media overview, which
currently lists the recent attack on Dr. Humayun Azad:

Writer and professor of Bangla at the Dhaka University, Dr. Humayun Azad,
was critically injured in a knife attack on the campus on 27 February. Dr
Azad, 57, is struggling for life at the Combined Military Hospital in
Dhaka.

The attack on this often controversial and well-known literary figure
comes after a group called for his arrest and trial on 12 December, for
views expressed in his new novel Pak Sar Zamin Sad Bad. An MP of Jamaat e
Islami, on 25 January, also demanded in parliament the introduction of a
blasphemy act to block publication of such books.

www.banglarights.net



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