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Pakistan's mass surveillance, censorship backed by China, US, EU, UAE tech
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
A new report by Amnesty International on Tuesday has revealed that Pakistan's growing mass surveillance and online censorship infrastructure is being powered by a global web of technology companies based in China, Europe, North America, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
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No justice for Uyghurs: WUC marks UN report anniversary amid ongoing repre
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Marking the third anniversary on August 28, WUC highlighted Amnesty International's latest findings on the enduring human cost of Beijing's repressive policies. Updates on 126 individual cases from the #FreeXinjiangDetainees campaign reveal that Uyghur families continue to suffer under mass
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3rd internet shutdown in Balochistan; rights group criticise online censor
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Human rights watchdog Amnesty International has denounced the move, stating that these blanket shutdowns infringe on citizens' rights to information, free expression, and freedom of movement.
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Disappeared in Quetta: Amnesty demands Pakistan reveal fate of Baloch stud
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Amnesty International has urged Pakistani authorities to reveal the fate and whereabouts of Mahjabeen Baloch, a 23-year-old student who was forcibly disappeared from Quetta three months ago, and to put an end to the practice of enforced disappearances.
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China faces criticism as Uyghur families still suffer, 3 years after UN Xi
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Amnesty International has raised fresh alarm that Muslim ethnic minorities in Xinjiang remain under relentless repression, three years after the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released its landmark assessment on 31 August 2022. That report concluded that serious
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Imran Khan's nephew Shershah sent on judicial remand in Jinnah House attac
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
An anti-terrorism court in Lahore sent PTI founder Imran Khan's nephew, Shershah Khan, to judicial remand in the May 9 Jinnah House attack case, Dawn reported. The court rejected police's plea for 30-day physical remand, with Shershah's counsel calling the arrest "politically motivated."
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"Israel carrying out deliberate campaign of starvation in occupied Gaza St
Updated : 6 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Amnesty International accused Israel of a "deliberate campaign of starvation" in Gaza, calling it part of an ongoing genocide. The UN and aid groups warn of famine as nearly one million Palestinians face displacement, with children, pregnant women, and the elderly at highest risk amid restri
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466 arrested in London protest backing banned Palestine Action
Updated : 7 months ago IST
London police arrested 466 people at a protest supporting Palestine Action, a group recently banned as a "terror organisation." Critics, including Amnesty International and an MP, condemned the arrests as an attack on free speech. The ban followed the group's damaging of military aircraft li
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'Cut us open and we bleed like them': Amnesty slams Pakistan's discriminat
Updated : 7 months ago IST
Amnesty International's report reveals severe caste and religion-based discrimination against Pakistan's sanitation workers, mainly Christians and Hindus. They face hazardous work, low pay, job insecurity, and social stigma, with little legal protection, highlighting systemic human rights
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Amnesty International marks 10 years since China's '709 Crackdown', calls
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
Amnesty International has issued a joint statement commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Chinese government's "709" crackdown on human rights lawyers, urging for an independent international inquiry into the decade-long persecution of civil society and human rights activists in China. Th
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Amnesty International slams Pakistan for using anti-terror laws to crush B
Updated : 7 months, 4 weeks ago IST
Amnesty International has called for the immediate release of Baloch Yakjehti Committee leaders detained in Pakistan, calling it part of a wider crackdown on peaceful activism. The group raised concerns over torture, denial of medical aid, and misuse of anti-terror laws against Baloch human
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Ten years after '709' crackdown, global call grows to hold China accountab
Updated : 8 months, 1 week ago IST
Ten years after China launched a sweeping crackdown on human rights lawyers, international rights groups, led by Amnesty International, are urging immediate global action to hold the Chinese government accountable for a decade of ongoing repression.
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