Day: June 21, 2022

Yemen: Journalist killed in a car bomb

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Originally From: https://www.ifj.org/fr/salle-de-presse/nouvelles/detail/category/press-releases/article/yemen-journalist-killed-in-a-car-bomb.html Brussels 21 June 2022 – Saber al-Haidari, a former Yemeni journalist working for foreign media outlets, was killed on 15 June after a device planted on his car exploded while he was driving home in the southern city of Aden, Yemen. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its local affiliate, the Yemeni Journalists Syndicate (YJS) strongly condemn this killing and call for justice in the face of widespread impunity. According to media reports, the car blast which killed the 40-year-old Al-Haidari also injured other passengers in the car.…

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SRI LANKA: Two big lies told about the 1978 Constitution

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June 21, 2022 An Article by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Two big lies told about the 1978 Constitution By Basil Fernando Two great lies have been propagated about the 1978 Constitution. When a lie is repeated many times by many persons, often such a lie begins to be treated as a conventional truth. The first of these lies is that the 1978 Constitution was created on the model of the French Constitution and the American Constitutional tradition. This was first propagated by Professor A.J. Wilson who called…

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Faces of the Indian New Wave

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The film heritage Foundation Born in Navsari, Gujarat, in 1952, filmmaker Ketan Mehta did his schooling in Delhi and then graduated in film direction from the Film and Television Institute of India, (FTII), Pune. As a child he would watch plays with his father, a litterateur and a professor of Gujarati, who was also the head of the dramatics department at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. He believes that was probably how he was bitten by the bug of theatre and acting. In college he did plays under the tutelage of B.V.…

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