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Uyghur academic sentenced to 13 years imprisonment in China's Xinjiang
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], April 24 (ANI): A Uyghur lecturer has been sentenced to 13 years in prison in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region [XUAR], said a media report citing a security officer at the university where he worked.
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Crackdown on Tibetan language and cultural education continues
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Lhasa [Tibet], April 24 (ANI): China orders Tibetan private schools to be closed and students enrolled in Chinese medium schools in Sershul County, said a Dharamsala based rights organisation.
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23 unregistered pharmacies shut down in Tanzania as nationwide crackdown b
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Dar es Salaam [Tanzania], April 23 (ANI/Xinhua): The Pharmacy Council of Tanzania has launched a nationwide crackdown on unregistered pharmacies as 23 of them were closed on Friday in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, the Ministry of Health said in a statement on Saturday.
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Uyghur human rights advocate calls upon companies to abandon products of f
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], April 20 (ANI): In a bid to address Chinese repression of Uyghurs, a Uyghur human rights advocate has called upon brands to remove materials that come from China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) from every level of their supply chains, according to a media report.
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After protests by rights groups, Saudi Arabia halts deportation of four Uy
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], April 15 (ANI): After worldwide protests by human rights groups, Saudi Arabia on Wednesday halted the deportation of four Uyghur individuals to China, which included a woman and her 13-year-old daughter.
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Imran Khan calls youth of Pakistan to raise voice through social media aga
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], April 14 (ANI): Lashing out at the Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif-led Pakistan government over the recent crackdown on social media in the country, former Prime Minister Imran Khan said that it is not the Pakistan of the 1970s era but a 'Naya Pakistan' where peopl
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33 years of Tiananmen massacre: China's brutal crackdown on its own people
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], April 12 (ANI): On the night of June 3, 1989, China's military crackdown on students protesting for democratic reforms in various major cities across China led to a massacre of reportedly thousands of unarmed citizens on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, revealing the brutality o
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Systematic Uyghur genocide depicts human rights abuses against ethnic mino
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], April 11 (ANI): The systematic Uyghur genocide by Chinese authorities in Xinjiang characterizes the human rights abuses committed by China against Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities, said a media report.
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CCP attempting to erase memories of Tiananmen Square massacre: Report
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], April 9 (ANI): Asserting that the recollection of the Tiananmen Sqaure massacre still haunts the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), a media report said that the party is making attempts to erase the memory of the ruthless political crackdown from public memory.
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Sri Lanka: UN experts condemn crackdown on protests
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], April 9 (ANI): UN human rights experts have urged the Sri Lankan Government to guarantee the fundamental rights of peaceful assembly and of expression during peaceful protests, amid the country's severe economic crisis.
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Sri Lanka: Massive protests continue amid crackdown, nationwide curfew
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 3 (ANI): Sri Lanka continued to witness protests across the country with people breaking the government-imposed curfew across the country even amid a crackdown on protestors as the country faces its worst economic crisis since independence.
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Punjab Health Minister says adulteration will not be tolerated, state-leve
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], April 2 (ANI): Punjab Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr Vijay Singla on Saturday said that in a bid to check adulteration in milk and milk products, a state-level inspection drive was kick-started under which the teams collected samples from different places
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