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Japanese illustrator produces booklet depicting experience of Uzbek woman
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Shimizu has portrayed the experiences of female survivors of Xinjiang's detention camps. The vast network of detention camps are believed to have held up to 1.8 million Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities.
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Thousands remain in detention in Myanmar for opposing military rule: UN
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
To mark the country's 75th anniversary of independence, the military junta announced this week that it would free some 7,000 prisoners, UN news reported. However, it did not specify whether those jailed as part of its brutal crackdown on dissent would be included.
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Pakistan to deport Afghan women refugees staying illegally: Official
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
A prison official in Karachi, Pakistan, said that from the first week of January, they will start deporting to Afghanistan, Afghan women who had been sentenced for living in the country without legal documents, reported TOLO News.
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India gets 2nd consular access for ex-Navy officers in Qatari custody: MEA
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday confirmed that India has secured second consular access for its 8 ex-Navy officers who are in detention in Qatar.
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MP govt orders DM to exercise detention powers under NSA amid inputs on th
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Madhya Pradesh government on Wednesday issued an order to all district magistrates to exercise detention powers under NSA (National Security Act) against suspects, amid inputs claiming that they could disturb communal harmony in the state between January 1 and March 31, 2023.
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Pakistan's home-grown "asset" TTP haunts its master
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
This year ends on an alarming note in Pakistan as many as 33 Islamist militants, who were under detention and interrogation, snatched the guns from security personnel on duty and made them hostage in their own office for three days and killed two.
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Peru: Judge orders 18 months detention for former President Pedro Castillo
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The Prosecutor's Office requested 18 months of pre-trial detention against Pedro Castillo and Anibal Torres, former Prime Minister, to ensure the presence of the accused during this stage, the intermediate stage, and the trial.
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Basketball star Brittney Griner returns to US after prisoner exchange with
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Brittney Griner was arrested at a Moscow airport nine months ago. She was accused of possession of vape cartridges with a small quantity of cannabis oil and sentenced in August to nine years in prison. Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer known as the "Merchant of Death" was detained Thailand
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Pakistan panel reveals 974 'missing people' in detention centres, 616 in p
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
In the report, the Missing Persons Commission said that 974 people declared "missing" were in detention centres while 616 remained in prisons.
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Antony Blinken hails release of Brittney Griner, says US continues to work
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Blinken said that Cherelle Griner spoke to her wife Brittney and stressed that listening to them connect for the first time after the basketball player's release "was as moving as it was unforgettable."
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LG Saxena asks Centre to extend to Delhi law on detention of bootleggers,
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena on Friday asked the Central government to extend to the national capital the law on the detention of bootleggers, drug offenders, immoral traffic offenders, land grabbers, and others in order to strengthen the police in the city.
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"Inhuman behaviour": YS Vijayamma condemns daughter Sharmila's detention i
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
YSR Telangana Party chief Sharmila's mother YS Vijayamma on Tuesday hit out at the TRS led-government and termed the detention and towing of Sharmila while she was sitting inside the car as 'inhuman behaviour'.
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