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Rights experts condemn repeated use of emergency in Sri Lanka to crack dow
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], August 9 (ANI): UN human rights experts on Monday (local time) condemned the extensive, prolonged and repeated use of state of emergency measures since April 2, 2022 by Sri Lankan authorities to crack down on peaceful protesters and prevent them from voicing their griev
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Xinjiang officials use Xi's anti-crime campaign to target Uyghurs across r
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Beijing [China], August 7 (ANI): The anti-crime campaign that China has been using to eradicate criminal forces and ensure political security and social control across the country is now also used by authorities in China's far-western Xinjiang region to target Uyghurs, continuing the crackdo
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Rights bodies condemn Sri Lanka's violent crackdown on protesters
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], August 6 (ANI): As many as 13 organizations have condemned the Sri Lankan authorities' violent crackdown and increasing reprisals against peaceful protesters in the island country.
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Shoot 'bad elements' but don't defame entire community, AIUDF chief Badru
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Guwahati (Assam) [India], August 6 (ANI): Amid a crackdown on madrasas in Assam, the Chief of All India United Democratic Front, Badruddin Ajmal on Saturday said that he had no sympathy for bad elements in madrasas and that the authorities should impose detentions and shoot the "bad teachers
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Pakistan fears crackdown on terrorists it harbours, cites int'l laws over
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 6 (ANI): Pakistan is treading cautiously over the killing of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman-al Zawahiri in Afghanistan by a US drone strike, and experts say Islamabad's reference to the relevant international laws after the killing suggested that it indirectly opposed such
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DRI cracks down on illicit manufacturing; seizes drugs worth Rs 245 crore
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 3 (ANI): The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has seized drugs worth Rs 245 crore in crackdowns on illicit manufacturing of drugs including at a clandestine factory in Yamunanagar, Haryana, the Ministry of Finance said on Wednesday.
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I-T raids underway at multiple locations linked to Tamil film producer Anb
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], August 2 (ANI): In a massive crackdown, the Income Tax Department carried out raids at multiple locations believed to be linked to well-known financier and Tamil Film Producer Anbu Chezhiyan.
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Taliban 2.0 shows its ugly face, lashes people for premarital relationship
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 1 (ANI): In another grim reminder of a crackdown on Afghan human rights, the Taliban has flogged three people publicly, for a total of 39 times, exposing that the outfit which rules Afghanistan has no tolerance for premarital relationships, media reports said.
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Pakistan: Protests in Sindh against police crackdown
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Sindh [Pakistan], August 1 (ANI): Nationalist groups of Sindh held a protest against the high-handedness of Sindh police and anti-encroachment forces at Karachi's Abdullah Shah Ghazi village, media reports said.
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Crackdown: Punjab Police claim to have arrested 260 big fish among 2,205 d
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Chandigarh [India], August 1 (ANI): Punjab Police claimed to have arrested as many as 2,205 drug smugglers including 260 "big fish" since July 5 and have registered 1,730 FIRs of which 145 are related to commercial quantities, officials said on Monday.
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Al-Qaeda-linked terror module busted in Assam: These are the terrorists na
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Guwahati (Assam) [India], July 29 (ANI): In a major crackdown in the northeastern state of Assam, 11 persons were detained for their alleged links with global terror outfits including Al-Qaeda in Indian Sub-continent (AQIS) and Bangladesh-based Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT). One of the per
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Taliban's crackdown destroying lives of Afghan women, girls: Rights group
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 28 (ANI): The lives of women and girls in Afghanistan are being devastated by the Taliban's crackdown on their human rights, a London-based rights group said in its new report.
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