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SIT probe sought into BJP workers' killing in Bengal, SC issues notice to
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 18 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to the West Bengal State Government after hearing the joint petition filed by the brother of the BJP worker, who was allegedly killed by Trinamool Congress (TMC) activists, seeking a direction for a Special Investiga
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Noted Myanmar anti-coup activist dies after being set ablaze by unidentifi
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Naypyitaw [Myanmar], May 16 (ANI): Amid human rights violations in military-ruled Myanmar, a noted Myanmarese poet, philanthropist and veteran politician died after he was set ablaze by an unidentified man. This is being seen as another act perpetrated by the junta's security forces in the c
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Delhi court grants bail to accused in activist Sushil Pandit matter
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 16 (ANI): A Delhi court has granted bail to one of the accused of allegedly plotting to kill a human rights activist Sushil Pandit.
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Feminist activist's request to man to stop smoking triggers violent reacti
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Palo Alto [US], May 16 (ANI): A request by a feminist activist to a man to stop smoking at a restaurant in China's Chengdu triggered a violent reaction, death threats and later "patriotic social mobs" harassed her on the net.
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Two Chinese activists face punishment for posting censored COVID-19 articl
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], May 13 (ANI): Two Chinese activists, who faced a stringent crackdown for reporting on the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, are facing punishment after being tried in a Beijing court earlier this week.
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NHRC to investigate woman farmer activist's gangrape and death
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 12 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has decided to investigate the case of alleged rape and death of a woman activist from West Bengal, at Tikri border where the farmers protest is going on against Centre's three farm laws.
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Journalism in PoK: A saga of intimidation, oppression and censorship
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Gilgit [PoK]/Bern [Switzerland], May 11 (ANI): Journalists and political activists from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Gilgit-Baltistan have blamed Islamabad for subjugating their voice and harassment by using draconian anti-terrorism laws.
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Delhi HC grants interim bail to Pinjra Tod activist Natasha Narwal
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 10 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Monday granted three weeks interim bail to Pinjra Tod activist Natasha Narwal after her father passed away due to COVID-19.
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Bengal activist allegedly raped while going to farmers' protest at Delhi's
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Jhajjar (Haryana) [India], May 10 (ANI): A West Bengal-based woman who died with COVID-19 symptoms at a hospital in Haryana was allegedly gang-raped while she was going to join the farmers' protest at Tikri border in Haryana.
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Blasphemy a tool to silence women's rights activists in Pakistan
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 8 (ANI): The charge of blasphemy has been used as a tool to silence many in Pakistan, especially annual Aurat March that continues to be targeted with unsubstantiated allegations, and scandalized by, as experts call then, upholders of patriarchal inertia.
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Activist Yogita Bhayana moves HC seeking direction to Kwality Pharmaceutic
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 6 (ANI): Social Activist Yogita Bhayana moved the Delhi High Court seeking direction to Kwality Pharmaceuticals Limited to supply the available units of the Remdesivir and further directed it to use the full capacity to manufacture/produce the Remdesivir and supply the
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Jailed Hong Kong activist gets new prison term over Tiananmen Square vigil
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Hong Kong, May 6 (ANI): Prominent Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong was sentenced to serve 10 more months in prison on Thursday for joining last year's vigil to commemorate victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.
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