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MQM stages protest in London against Pak PM's threat to assassinate Altaf
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
London [UK], July 11 (ANI): Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) activists staged a protest outside 10 Downing Street in London to draw the attention of the British government to the "death threat" to party leader Altaf Hussain by Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan.
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China targeting Uyghur families to silence activists abroad, says Rights g
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Munich [Germany], July 8 (ANI): A pro-Uyghur group has strongly condemned the Chinese government's practice of targeting the Uyghur "family space" in order to silence Uyghurs abroad.
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US considers urgent visas for vulnerable Afghan women after troop pull out
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US] July 8 (ANI): Human and Women rights activists have asked the Biden administration to provide up to 2,000 visas specifically for vulnerable women and women's advocates who are at risk after the US troops pull out from Afghanistan.
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Goa Congress targets Centre over Stan Swamy's death, demands release of ot
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Panaji (Goa) [India], July 7 (ANI): To protest against the death of jailed activist Father Stan Swamy, the Goa unit of Congress on Tuesday organised a demonstration at Azad Maidan in Panaji and demanded immediate release of other activists behind bars.
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Exiled Kashmiris urge UNHRC to act against Pakistan, accuse ISI of targeti
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva (Switzerland), July 5 (ANI): Exiled Kashmiris and rights activists held a demonstration in front of the UN Human Rights Council building in Geneva to highlight Pakistan's systematic discrimination against Kashmiris in the region it has illegally occupied for over seven decades.
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Kazakh police detain Uyghur activists involved in Xinjiang protests outsid
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Almaty [Kazakhstan], July 3 (ANI): Kazakh police on Thursday detained several activists who were involved in ongoing pickets in front of the Chinese Consulate to demand the release of their relatives held in China's Xinjiang-Uyghur Autonomous Region in Almaty.
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Human rights defenders are tortured in China, says UN expert
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 29 (ANI): A top UN independent expert on Monday highlighted concerns that activists in China were being abused and sentenced to long prison terms or house arrest.
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Hot oil poured over cow by unidentified persons in Madurai; animal welfare
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Madurai (Tamil Nadu) [India], June 27 (ANI): Unidentified persons poured hot oil on a stray cow in Tallakulam of Tamil Nadu's Madurai district on Sunday, informed district collector S Aneesh Sekhar.
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Myanmar military torturing detainees to know whereabouts of opponents, say
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 27 (ANI): Myanmar's military is using torture to extract information from detainees on the whereabouts of senior opposition members and activist leaders, an American journalist recently released from a Yangon prison told CNN.
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Switzerland: Uyghurs, Tibetan activists protest outside Olympic Museum aga
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Lausanne [Switzerland], June 24 (ANI): Dozens of Uyghurs and Tibetan activists gathered outside the Olympic Museum in Lausanne city here to protest against the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
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Dozens of Uyghurs, Tibetans, Hongkongers stage protest in US against Beiji
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 24 (ANI): Dozens of Uyghur, Tibetan and Hong Kong activists gathered outside the White House to protest against the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing and to call for a complete boycott.
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Pakistan: Sindh Action Committee vows to launch 'court arrest' movement ag
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Sindh [Pakistan], June 22 (ANI): The leaders of the Sindh Action Committee (SAC) have warned of launching a 'court arrest' movement and a siege to the Sindh Assembly in Pakistan in the next stage of protest against 'illegal' occupation of lands by the Bahria Town Karachi (BTK) and the arrest
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