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'Cowardly at best, complicit at worst': Rights group slams Pak govt over k
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 3 (ANI): Highlighting the grim reality of "spiralling radicalisation" in the country, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Friday condemned the killing of the Sri Lankan man by a Sialkot mob on "flimsy allegations of blasphemy".
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Rights group urges Pakistan to end 'abhorrent' enforced disappearances
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
London [UK], November 24 (ANI): A UK based human rights group has called for Pakistani authorities to end the use of enforced disappearances as a tool of state policy as it released new evidence documenting the effect of illegal abductions on the families of those victims.
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HC restrains ED from taking any action pursuant to attachment of Amnesty I
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 26 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed to maintain the status quo till Amnesty International India's appeal against the attachment order is taken by the Appellate Tribunal, currently which is not functional.
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Rights NGO forced to close its Hong Kong offices citing security law
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Hong Kong, October 25 (ANI): A London-based rights organisation on Monday said that it would close its two offices in Hong Kong by the end of 2021 after 40 years of working there and will move operations to the organization's other missions in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Amnesty International says will close 2 offices in Hong Kong by end of yea
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Hong Kong, October 25 (ANI/Sputnik): Amnesty International announced on Monday that it would close its two offices in Hong Kong by the end of 2021 after 40 years of working there and will move operations to the organization's other missions in the Asia-Pacific region.
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13 Hazaras including 17-year-old girl among people killed in August: Repor
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan] October 5 (ANI): Amid the Taliban's "ethnic cleansing" bid, a new investigation by Amnesty International revealed that 13 Hazaras, including nine former government soldiers and a 17-year-old girl were among the Afghans executed by the group on August 30.
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Sri Lanka has world's 2nd-highest number of enforced disappearances: Right
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], August 5 (ANI): Sri Lanka has the world's second-highest number of enforced disappearances, as tens of thousands of people have "forcibly disappeared" over many decades, according to Amnesty International.
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Rights group expresses concern over abduction of human rights activist in
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan] July 21 (ANI): Various European chapters of Amnesty International, including Luxemburg, Brussels, Switzerland have written to the Sindh Chief Minister, expressing their concern over the abduction of a human rights activist in the country.
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Pegasus row: Assam CM demands ban on Amnesty International
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Guwahati (Assam) [India], July 20 (ANI): Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday lambasted Amnesty International and demanded a ban on the organisation over its role in the Pegasus surveillance controversy.
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'War crime': Rights group condemns Taliban's killing of 22 surrendering Af
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
London [UK], July 14 (ANI): Amnesty International has condemned the Taliban's killing of 22 surrendering Afghan soldiers in Northern Afghanistan and termed the incident a "war crime".
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Amnesty International tells leaders to support Nepal in fight against COVI
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], June 14 (ANI): Amnesty International on Monday has called on international community to increase aid supply as well as vaccines to Nepal as it continues to battle COVID-19 pandemic's second wave.
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Photographs, videos expose Myanmar's military brutality of shooting anti-c
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Naypyitaw [Myanmar], April 28 (ANI): Digital data by anti-coup protesters in the form of photographs and videos have exposed Myanmar's military brutality. In one case, they may have revealed what happened to a teenage protester whose image has become a symbol of the resistance.
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