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Asian Games: Indonesian police kills dozens of criminals in crackdown
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Jakarta [Indonesia], Aug 18 (ANI): Indonesian police has killed dozens of petty criminals in a massive crackdown against them, ahead of the 18th edition of the Asian Games that begins today.
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Amnesty to Pakistan: End alarming poll-linked crackdown
Updated : 7 years, 9 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 : 7 years, 9 months 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 : 7 years, 10 months 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 : 7 years, 10 months 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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Yameen turning Maldives into dictatorship, but will China support it?
Updated : 8 years 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 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 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 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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Amnesty International tells Maldives to release opposition leaders
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
London [United Kingdom], Feb 08 (ANI): Amnesty International has called upon authorities in the Maldives to immediately release arbitrarily detained members of the political opposition in line with a recent Supreme Court ruling.
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Amnesty International warns Maldives against suppression
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
London [United Kingdom], Feb 08 (ANI): Amnesty International has warned the Maldives against using a state of emergency as a tool for further repression and asked for immediate release of judges and opposition politicians detained by the government.
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EU urges Myanmar to allow UN probe into Rohingya assaults
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], Jan 12 (ANI): The European Union (EU) urged Myanmar to allow the United Nations (UN) to access the country for conducting the probe into the Rohingya assaults reported so far.
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