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Two Chinese activists face punishment for posting censored COVID-19 articl
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 13 (ANI): Two Chinese activists, who faced a stringent crackdown for reporting on the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, are facing punishment after being tried in a Beijing court earlier this week.
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'No sign' of end to brutal crackdown in Myanmar: UN
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], May 12 (ANI): One hundred days since the Myanmar military coup, the "brutal" repression of protesters has continued, despite all international efforts to end the violence, the UN rights office (OHCHR) said on Tuesday (local time).
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China targets Xinjiang Muslim women to suppress birth rate
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 11 (ANI): As China continues its crackdown on the Uyghur community, the Xi Jinping government forces the women residing in the Xinjiang region to have fewer babies under the name of population control.
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Upcoming UN meet on Uyghur crackdown upsets China
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 11 (ANI): Fuming over an upcoming UN video conference on Beijing's crackdown on the Uyghur Muslims, China has called on members of the United Nations not to attend the event, saying it "is based on sheer lies and political bias".
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China's 'relatives policy' emerging as part of broader crackdown on Uyghur
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Hong Kong, May 11 (ANI): China's 2016 'relatives policy', where Chinese government cadres are sent to live, work and sleep with families to promote national harmony in the country, has emerged as a major constituent of a broader crackdown on Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang
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European researchers raise alarm over China's attempts to suppress critici
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], May 10 (ANI): Some of Europe's China researchers have raised alarm over the repeated efforts of Chinese organisations to stifle criticism as Beijing seeks to aggressively crackdown on findings that cast the country in an unflattering light.
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Jailed Hong Kong activist gets new prison term over Tiananmen Square vigil
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Hong Kong, May 6 (ANI): Prominent Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong was sentenced to serve 10 more months in prison on Thursday for joining last year's vigil to commemorate victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.
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Myanmar's military govt blocks social media, internet to gain control over
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Naypyitaw [Myanmar], May 3 (ANI): The Burmese military regime has arrested journalists and banned independent media in order to gain control over information and crackdown on protesters and the opposition movement.
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Uyghur activists dismiss Chinese propaganda documentary on happy Muslims i
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Nur-Sultan [Kazakhstan], May 2 (ANI): Uyghur activists dismissed a documentary released by the state-owned China Global Television Network in mid-April in several languages, including English and Russian, in a bid to push Beijing's narrative of Xinjiang to global audiences.
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Delhi Police Crime Branch busts fake Remdesivir manufacturing unit in Utta
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 1 (ANI): In a major crackdown on black marketing of counterfeit drugs, Delhi Crime Branch's inter-state cell busted a manufacturing unit of 'fake Remdesivir' at Uttarakhand's Kotdwar and arrested seven people associated with the inter-state racket of 'fake life-saving
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China charges Xi critic businessman with illegal fundraising, obstructing
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], April 25 (ANI): As China continues to impose severe crackdowns on dissent and critics in the country, Sun Dawu, an outspoken rural businessman, has been formally arrested on a number of charges, months after being taken into detention.
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ASEAN countries urge Myanmar's military chief to end violence
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Naypyitaw [Myanmar], April 25 (ANI): Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) leaders have urged the head of Myanmar's military chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, who took power in a coup on February 1, to end the violent crackdown in the country.
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