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Baloch activist accuses Pakistani military of genocide-scale repression in
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Baloch leader Mehran Marri has delivered a scathing indictment of Pakistan's human rights record in Balochistan, alleging widespread enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, and arbitrary detentions that he describes as "genocide at full escalation."
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Levies officer among two reportedly detained by security forces in Balochi
Updated : 4 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Two men, including a Levies officer, were arrested in Balochistan's Kolwah and Kharan districts, with their whereabouts unknown. Separately, attackers abducted 18 labourers and set fire to vehicles in Khuzdar. The province faces a severe human rights crisis, with enforced disappearances and
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UNHRC's Volker Turk raises alarm on global human rights crisis as Tibet fa
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
At the UNHRC, High Commissioner Volker Turk warned that human rights face global threats, citing conflicts, shrinking freedoms, and discrimination. Despite some progress, Tibetans endure repression, cultural assimilation, and arbitrary detentions. He urged urgent international action to prot
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Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar approaches Calcutta High Court, seeks judi
Updated : 8 months, 2 weeks ago IST
In a significant legal development, Union Minister of State for Education and DoNER Sukanta Majumdar has filed a writ petition before the Calcutta High Court challenging repeated illegal and arbitrary detentions by the state authorities.
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Paank condemns enforced disappearances by Pakistani military in Balochista
Updated : 9 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Paank, the Baloch National Movement's Human Rights Department, strongly denounced the recent incidents of extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, and arbitrary detentions carried out by the Pakistani military in the Awaran district of Balochistan.
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BNM announces global protests to highlight human rights violations in Balo
Updated : 11 months, 1 week ago IST
These protests will highlight the concerning increase in enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions of Baloch political activists, and false allegations used to suppress dissent, the post noted.
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Geneva: Activists at UN highlight rampant human rights abuses in Pakistan
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Human rights activists condemned Pakistan on Thursday for a range of severe human rights violations, including enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detentions, and torture aimed at silencing dissent.
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Afghanistan: UNAMA calls for halt on arbitrary detentions of journalists
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
The United Nations Assistance Mission (UNAMA) has called on the Taliban to stop arbitrarily detaining journalists in Afghanistan, according to Khaama Press.
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EU calls for immediate release of detained women in Afghanistan
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
The European Union (EU) has called for the immediate release of women detained in Afghanistan for defending their and others’ rights and said arbitrary detentions undermine the caretaker government’s domestic legitimacy, Khaama Press reported.
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Amnesty International slams Pakistan for cases of enforced disappearances
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Amnesty International slammed Pakistan over the multiple cases of enforced disappearance, and secret and arbitrary detentions and called out the authorities to take action and work towards ending this practice.
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Pak rights group condemns FIR against Pashtun leader Manzoor Pashteen
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) leader Manzoor Pashteen has been booked on terrorism charges for making a speech on the state's reluctance to criminalise enforced disappearance and arbitrary detentions.
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Pakistan: PTM leader Pashteen booked on terrorism charges for speech on ex
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
PTM leader Manzoor Pashteen booked on terrorism charges for speaking out about state reluctance to criminalise enforced disappearance.
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