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Hong Kong student activist found guilty of participating in pro-democracy
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Hong Kong [China], December 12 (ANI): As China continues to clamp down on Hong Kong pro-democracy activism, a student activist, Tony Chung Hon-lam, was found guilty of flag desecration and participation in a protest over the now-withdrawn extradition bill last year.
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Activist, former lawmaker Leung Chung-hang flees Hong Kong, pitches for US
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Hong Kong, December 12 (ANI): Former Hong Kong lawmaker Sixtus Baggio Leung Chung-hang has left the territory and is in the United States to press Washington for asylum to young Hongkongers.
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Biden should heed environmentalists' calls, become first plastic-free pres
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], December 11 (ANI/Sputnik): As the incoming US president, Joe Biden should address the plastic pollution problem in the United States and become the first plastic-free president, Dianna Cohen, Co-Founder, and CEO of Plastic Pollution Coalition, a US-based environmental allian
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Anna Hazare warns of 'Jan Andolan' if farmers' demands remain unaddressed
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Ahmednagar (Maharashtra) [India], December 10 (ANI): Octogenarian social activist Anna Hazare on Thursday came out in support of farmer protests and warned the Central government that he would begin a 'Jan Andolan' if farmers' demands remain unaddressed.
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Look in your own backyard: PoK activist on Pak minister's tweet on farmers
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Glasgow [UK], December 10 (ANI): Days after Pakistani Federal minister Fawad Chaudhary said that his heart goes out to the "Punjabi" farmers agitating "on the other side of the border", PoK activist Dr Amjad Ayub Mirza on Wednesday asked him to concentrate on Lahore instead, where an anti-go
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Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Agnes Chow denied bail by High Court
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Hong Kong, December 9 (ANI): A day after eight Hong Kong legislators were arrested for their involvement in pro-democracy protests across the region, activist Agnes Chow Ting has been denied bail pending her appeal of a 10-month prison sentence for her role in a siege of police headquarters
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Notice issued to Trupti Desai barring her from visiting Shirdi till Dec 11
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Ahmednagar (Maharashtra) [India], December 9 (ANI): Women's Right's activist Trupti Desai has been asked not to enter Shirdi town in Maharashtra till December 11 after she threatened to remove boards put up by Shri Saibaba Temple shrine officials requesting devotees to wear traditional India
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17 Year Old Activist Awarded As Wai Wai Glocal Teen Hero India, 2020
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], December 8 (ANI/Media Dekho): CYDA Pune announced the winner of the second edition of "Wai Wai Glocal Teen Hero India 2020" virtually today.
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Hong Kong Police arrest 8 more activists, including Leung Kwok-hung
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Hong Kong, December 8 (ANI): Eight Hong Kong legislators have been arrested a day after eight people were held over a protest on a university campus last month.
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PM, Union Agri Minister must hold discussion with farmers across country:
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], December 8 (ANI): Amidst the ongoing farmer protests against the new agricultural sector laws, farmers' activist and chief advisor of Consortium of Indian Farmers Association, P Chengal Reddy on Monday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Agriculture
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Over 150 PDM activists booked for violating Covid-19 SOPs during rally
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Rawalpindi [Pakistan], December 8 (ANI): An FIR was registered against the local leadership of Pakistan opposition's alliance - Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), including members of Jamiat-Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), along with 150 workers of diffe
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PoK activist Amjad Mirza slams Imran Khan after man throws his 5 children
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
London [UK], December 7 (ANI): Amjad Ayub Mirza, an exiled activist from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, made a veiled attack at Prime Minister Imran Khan after a Lahore citizen threw his five kids into a canal due to poverty and hunger.
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