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Amnesty to Pakistan: End alarming poll-linked crackdown
Updated : 7 years, 11 months ago IST
New York [United States], June 15 (ANI): New York-based human rights watchdog Amnesty International has appealed to authorities in Pakistan to end what it described as an alarming crackdown on human rights defenders, activists, journalists and other civil society members in the run up to the
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Rohingya fighters killed Hindus in Myanmar: Amnesty International
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], May 23 (ANI): Amnesty International has said that it has evidence that Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) killed around 99 Hindu civilians in August 2017.
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Maldives: Amnesty International declares Joint Opposition spokesperson Pri
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Male [Maldives], May 11 (ANI): Amnesty International on Friday called on the Maldivian government to release Galolhu-South constituency Member of Parliament and Joint Opposition spokesperson Ahmed Mahloof and declared him a Prisoner of Conscience (PoC).
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Turkey sentences 14 journalists over terror charges
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Istanbul [Turkey], Apr 26 (ANI): An Istanbul court sentenced at least 14 journalists from Cumhuriyet (Republic) daily, Turkey's oldest national newspaper to different prison terms over charges of terrorism on Wednesday.
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Sikh woman weds Lahore man, converts to Islam
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], April 20 (ANI): A Sikh woman pilgrim from Punjab's Hoshiarpur district has reportedly married a Lahore-based Pakistani and has converted into Islam.
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'Pak Army supports jihadis, uses them against minorities'
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], Mar 22 (ANI): The Pakistan Army in the last few years has become radical and begun supporting jihadist groups, which are being used to kill minorities and rights activists in the Islamic nation, a Washington-based activist said on Wednesday.
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'Pak-India can't share good relations until its army stops interfering in
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], Mar. 22 (ANI): Pakistan and India cannot share good relations until the Pakistan Army stops interfering in Islamabad's foreign policies and political matters, a Washington-based activist said on Wednesday.
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Yameen turning Maldives into dictatorship, but will China support it?
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Mar. 13 (ANI): Ever since embattled Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen imposed emergency on February 1, he has been slowly turning his country into his fiefdom.
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74 percent blasphemy cases reported from Punjab Province in Pak: report
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Mar 12 (ANI): Nearly 74 percent of blasphemy-related cases have been reported in the Punjab Province in Pakistan, according to a report by the country's Center for Social Justice (CSJ) on Monday.
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Myanmar building military bases in burnt Rohingya villages
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
London [UK], Mar 12 (ANI): Myanmar is allegedly building military bases on the top of razed Rohingya villages, where the Rohingyas once lived before their persecution by the country's security forces in August last year.
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Amnesty International asks Maldives to release 'peaceful' protesters
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
London [United Kingdom], Feb 28 (ANI): Amnesty International has called on the authorities in the Maldives to immediately and unconditionally release the people "arbitrarily" detained under the State of Emergency (SOE) and halt attacks on "peaceful" protesters.
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Telangana Jagruthi rescuing Indians stranded in Kuwait
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Feb 22 (ANI): Parliamentarian Kalvakuntla Kavitha's NGO Telangana Jagruthi, through its programme - Jagruthi Chetuya - has funded the air journey of the Indians living in Kuwait, who could not afford a trip back to Hyderabad.
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