T V Sriram
Colombo, Nov 1 (PTI) Amid speculation that Sri Lanka’s Chief of Defence Staff Gen Sarath Fonseka may fight the Presidential polls, the country’s army chief has warned military personnel against dabbling in politics, saying soldiers in uniform have no right to engage in political work.
Army Chief Gen Jagath Jayasuriya also made it clear [...]

By Guy Faulconbridge
MOSCOW, Oct 31 (Reuters) – Russian police said they detained at least 50 people on Saturday at an unsanctioned human rights protest in central Moscow, but protesters put the number higher.
Police dragged off dozens of people to waiting buses and jostled scores of reporters towards metal barriers while protesters continued to chant “Freedom!” [...]

New York, October 30, 2009—Chinese police have reportedly arrested two Uighur journalists who published online about Uighur issues in Xinjiang, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Chinese authorities blamed local and international Uighur Web sites for fueling July’s ethnic violence, according to international news reports. 
Security officials arrested Web site manager Hailaite Niyazi in his [...]

New York, October 28, 2009—The Committee to Protect Journalists is greatly concerned by ongoing threats to Sri Lanka’s journalists and media organizations. Anonymous letters with death threats, at left, recently sent to Sunday Leader Editor-in-Chief Frederica Jansz and News Editor Munza Mushtaq echo those that ended in the death of the paper’s founder, Lasantha Wickramatunga, [...]

Stu Harrison
While two boat loads of Tamil refugees fleeing Sri Lanka push their case to be admitted into Australia, two reports on Sri Lankan atrocities against Tamils have been released without a word from the Australian media or government.
Reports from the United States state department and the European Commission (EC) revealed the extent of the [...]

Stuart Munckton
31 October 2009
After more than 120 days of mass resistance by the poor majority against a coup regime that overthrew elected President Manuel Zelaya, the regime has finally signed an agreement for Zelaya’s reinstatement.
On October 30, Zelaya and the coup regime signed an agreement opening the way for the elected president to take [...]

 Sue Bolton
 Justice and Freedom for Ceylon Tamils is a human rights action group based in Melbourne. It was formed in 2007. A spokesperson for the group, Nagamuthu Wickiramasingham, told Green Left Weekly that Tamil refugees had good reason to flee the brutal Sri Lankan regime by boat.
“There is no way of coming to Australia by [...]