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Activists believe Beijing's proposed national security law will snatch awa
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Hong Kong, May 29 (ANI): Beijing's endorsement of a national security law tailoring Hong Kong from acts of secession, subversion, terrorism or conspiring with foreign influences, activists believe, will soon lead to an imposition of arbitrary detentions and crackdowns on free speech and diss
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Activists, families continue protests against human rights violations in B
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Quetta [Pakistan], May 26 (ANI): Political activists and families of missing persons in Balochistan have been protesting for weeks to secure the safe release of their loved ones.
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Experts, activists criticise Pakistan Army for human rights abuses in Balo
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Paris [France], May 25 (ANI): A Paris-based NGO, the Baloch Voice Association, recently organised a virtual conference titled "Prevent genocide in Balochistan and end eliminations with impunity" amid Covid-19 outbreak in the region and rest of the world.
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Hong Kong Police fire tear gas at activists protesting China's new securit
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Hong Kong, May 24 (ANI): Hong Kong police used tear gas on Sunday to disperse protesters as thousands took to the streets to express their outrage at China's plan to adopt new national security law, which the residents consider as a threat to their civil liberties.
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TDP leader alleges fake cases being filed against party cadre in Andhra Pr
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Machilipatnam (Andhra Pradesh) [India], May 24 (ANI): Penamaluru former MLA and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader Bode Prasad held a protest in front of Vuyyuru police station alleging that fake cases are being filed against TDP activists.
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Dissidents condemn enforced disappearances, state-sanctioned killings, dim
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [US], May 19 (ANI): Expressing concerns over enforced disappearances, state-sanctioned killings in Pakistan, prominent Pakistani dissidents, human rights defenders, and peace activists from around the world have asserted that repression by authorities in the country has incre
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Chaos returns to Hong Kong as police detains hundreds of protestors in sho
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Hong Kong, May 11 (ANI): Riot police chased protesters through Hong Kong's shopping malls and streets on Sunday as democracy activists launched Mother's Day flash mob rallies calling for independence and demanding resignation for the city's China-backed unpopular leader.
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MEPs, activists lambast Pakistan for silencing dissidents amid Covid-19 ou
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], May 8 (ANI): The members of the European Parliament, experts and political activists from Pakistan have strongly criticized Islamabad for making full use of world's Covid distraction to silence the dissident voice.
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PoK activists support Labour Party leader Kier Starmer's stand on Kashmir
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
London [UK], May 8 (ANI): Political activists from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) have supported the renewed stand of Labour Party leader Kier Starmer on Kashmir.
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Pakistan apex court's decision to hold elections in Gilgit Baltistan is il
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington/ Leeds, May 06 (ANI): Political activists from Gilgit Baltistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) have termed the decision of the Pakistan Supreme Court to hold elections in Gilgit-Baltistan and form an interim government there as illegal and unconstitutional.
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Desecration of bodies of slain political activists against International l
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Quetta [Pakistan], May 5 (ANI): The Free Balochistan Movement (FBM) in a statement to media said that last week in Parom area of Panjgur district in Balochistan, Pakistani forces killed four pro-freedom Baloch activists and tied one of the dead bodies to the back of a vehicle and dragged it
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Swedish authorities must investigate Baloch journalist's death, ask activi
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Vancouver/London, May 2 (ANI): Stunned by the mysterious killing of Baloch journalist Sajid Hussain in Sweden on April 30, political and human rights activists have demanded proper investigations by Swedish authorities as they allege Pakistan's spy agency, the ISI, to be behind the incident.
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