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ICC announces amnesty in Sri Lanka Cricket corruption case
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Dubai [UAE], Jan 9 (ANI): The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Wednesday announced a 15-day amnesty to participants who have previously failed to report any information concerning corrupt conduct in Sri Lankan cricket.
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Film circuit disagrees with Shah's views on freedom of speech
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Jan 4 (ANI): Reacting sharply to actor Naseeruddin Shah's recent remark on freedom of speech in India, filmmaker Ashok Pandit implied that the actor is being used as a political stooge ahead of the elections, and termed Amnesty India, which released shah's video
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Naseeruddin Shah now says 'country awash with horrific hatred and cruelty'
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 4 (ANI): Days after triggering a controversy by speaking about his concerns over his children's safety in India, veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah has now alleged that "the country is awash with horrific hatred and cruelty."
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Khashoggi's killing: Amnesty Sec-Gen calls for UN investigation
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
London [UK], Nov 21 (ANI): Amnesty's Secretary General Kumi Naidoo wrote to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on November 21 (IST), urging him to set up a UN investigation into slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi's killing.
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Amnesty India calls for end to ED's 'smear campaign'
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 16 (ANI): Amnesty India has alleged that a deliberate attempt has been made by the government to tarnish the reputation of the human rights organisation by leaking a dossier, supposedly made by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), to the media without giving it access to
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Rohingya crisis: Aung San Suu Kyi stripped of Amnesty's highest honour
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Naypyidaw [Myanmar], Nov 13 (ANI): Human Rights organisation Amnesty International withdrew its highest honour, the Ambassador of Conscience Award, from Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday.
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Govt. treating human rights organisations like criminal enterprises: Amnes
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 26 (ANI): Amnesty India's Executive Director Aakar Patel in a statement on Friday accused government authorities of increasingly treating human rights organisations like "criminal enterprises".
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ED conducts raids at Amnesty International's Bengaluru office
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Oct 25 (ANI): The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has been conducting raids at Amnesty International's office in Bengaluru since 2 pm on Thursday.
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Ground staff neglect behind AI flight landing at under-construction runway
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Male [Maldives], Sep 14 (ANI): An Air India flight AI 263 which landed wrongly on an under-construction runway at the Male airport recently, could have been averted had the airport ground staff communicated with the pilots, said Thayyib Ibu Faisal of Amnesty International's Prisoner of Consc
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Asian Games: Indonesian police kills dozens of criminals in crackdown
Updated : 7 years, 7 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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