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Taliban manhandles woman, abduct her family members in Kabul
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan] September 13 (ANI): In what appears to be a growing trend in Taliban ruled Afghanistan, armed members of the group on Saturday assaulted a female civil society activist and abducted five of her family members.
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Taliban whip rights activist for participating in Kabul protest
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan] September 13 (ANI): Human Rights activist Habibullah Farzad was beaten brutally by the Taliban last Wednesday for participating in a protest held by women in Kabul.
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Pakistan: Journalists, lawyers, activists protest outside parliament agai
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan] September 13 (ANI): Hundreds of journalists in Pakistan gathered outside the Parliament House on Sunday to protest against the proposed 'Pakistan Media Development Authority' (PMDA) law.
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Rights body remembers Uyghur activist's sister who disappeared in China
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 11 (ANI): US-based rights group Campaign For Uyghurs (CFU) marked three years since the disappearance of Uyghur Muslim Dr Gulshan Abbas, the sister of the group's Executive Director Rushan Abbas in China.
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Taliban curtailing women's rights, equality in the name of religion: Woman
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], September 11 (ANI): Following the Taliban's statement that women should not be ministers and they should restrict themselves to giving birth only, woman activist Sandhya Rani said that the Taliban was curtailing women's rights and equality in the name of religi
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Afghans to stage protest outside UN office in Geneva against persecution o
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 10 (ANI): Afghans will organise a protest outside the UN office in Geneva on International Day of Peace on September 21 against "illegal takeover of Afghanistan" and "persecution of religious and ethnic minorities" by the Taliban regime, a rights activist said
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PIL on filling of NHRC vacancies, SC says plea infructuous now after appoi
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 9 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Thursday said and noted that the PIL filed by top court lawyer and human rights activist, Radhakanta Tripathy, is now infructuous since the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairperson has already been appointed (Justice Arun
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Hong Kong Police arrest 4 activists behind banned Tiananmen Square vigil:
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Hong Kong, September 8 (ANI): Hong Kong Police have arrested four key members of the pro-democracy group behind the city's annual Tiananmen Massacre vigil.
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Rona Wilson gets 15 days interim bail to attend father's last rites
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], September 7 (ANI): Special NIA Court in Mumbai on Tuesday granted interim bail to the activist Rona Wilson, who is an accused in the Bhima Koregaon Elgar Parishad case, for 15 days from September 13 to attend his father's last rites at his native place in Kerala
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SC adjourns hearing in pleas seeking inquiry into Pegasus snooping row to
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 7 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Tuesday adjourned the hearing in petitions seeking a court-monitored probe into the reports of the government allegedly using Israeli software Pegasus to spy on politicians, activists and journalists to September 13.
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Dogra Front protests alleged draping of 'Pakistani flag' over Syed Ali Sha
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Jammu and Kashmir [India], September 5 (ANI): Dogra Front activists in Jammu on Sunday protested against the purported draping of former Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani's body with the Pakistani flag.
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Afghan woman activist beaten up by Taliban as protest turns violent in Kab
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 4 (ANI): A woman activist who participated in a protest in Kabul seeking political rights under Taliban rule was seen in a video with a head injury, blood streaming down her face.
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