This Friday on November 29, students from across the country will march to demand the restoration of student unions in Pakistan. The Students Solidarity March is also raising multiple other student concerns, ranging from Higher Education Commission's budget cuts to fee hikes and the administration of hostels, but the question of student unions is central because in many ways it exemplifies the state’s narrow, authoritarian approach towards students and the…

“My news source close to the Palace said: “I’m going to give you great news, news like a bomb” ... In the evening of November 9, a very important politician came into the presence of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President and AK Party chairman, in the place that you call Palace and we call Complex. That important person who was stated to be from the CHP entered to the Complex not…

In the mosques of the city of Namangan, this week they stopped calling for prayer from the speakers, Namangan activist Abbas Asad reports. A representative of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Uzbekistan, on condition of anonymity, told reporters that the DUMU recommended that mosques not use loudspeakers.

On November 7, 2019, five men were sentenced to prison and caning by the Selangor Syariah High Court for attempting to engage in unnatural same sex conduct. Their story has received the attention of a liberal activist, Numan Afifi who wrote a prepared statement on his twitter account in support of the five accused men. He cited the court's decision as exaggerating and showing injustice to the LGBTQ 'community'.