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Pak rights group voices concern about enforced disappearances bill
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Enforced disappearances must be treated as a separate, autonomous crime. Any legislation to curb this practice must provide guarantees that anyone deprived of their liberty is kept in a fully authorised place of detention and victims, their families and witnesses provided protection in case
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Pak rights group condemns FIR against Pashtun leader Manzoor Pashteen
Updated : 3 years, 5 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, 5 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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Telangana: Two serial offenders arrested on charges of multiple kidnapping
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Telangana [India], October 15 (ANI): Two serial offenders were arrested by the Telangana Police on Saturday, in connection with a couple of kidnapping cases lately.
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Taliban releases local radio station manager after four months of detentio
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], October 11 (ANI): Taliban released the former owner and editor of Radio Aftab, a local radio station in Daikundi province of central Afghanistan after keeping him under detention for four months, Khaama Press reported citing the Afghanistan Journalists Center (AFJC).
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First minors sentenced under national security law in Hong Kong
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Hong Kong, October 9 (ANI): Five people including four minors have been sentenced to up to three years of detention in Hong Kong for advocating the overthrow of the Chinese government, according to media report.
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Former UN official held over 6 years in Iran allowed to leave, son freed f
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], October 3 (ANI): Baquer Namazi, an Iranian-American and the former United Nations official imprisoned in Iran on charges of spying and cooperating with the US government, has been released, according to local media citing officials.
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Protests in Iran intensify over death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], September 22 (ANI): The ongoing protests in Iran intensified on Wednesday as demonstrators hurled stones over security forces following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini days after detention by Iran's morality police, a US-based media report said.
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Three killed in Iran protest over death of Mahsa Amini
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], September 21 (ANI): A slew of protests erupted in Iran on Tuesday where three people have been killed during the unrest over the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, following her detention by the country's morality police, a media report said.
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Iranian women chop off hair, burn hijabs to mark protest over death of Mah
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], September 19 (ANI): A slew of protests erupted in Iran on Sunday over the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, following her detention by the country's morality police as women protesters cut their hair and burnt hijabs to protest against the mandatory veiling of wome
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Women take off hijab in Iran; mark protest over death of Mahsa Amini after
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], September 18 (ANI): A series of protests erupted in western Iran on Saturday over the death of a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, following her detention by Iran's morality police where the women protestors took their hijabs off to protest the mandatory veiling, media reports s
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Iran: 22-yr-old woman, Mahsa Amini, dies after arrest by 'Morality Police'
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], September 17 (ANI): Controversy sparked on social media after a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, died after slipping into a coma following her detention by Iran's morality police, a dedicated unit that enforces strict dress codes for women, such as wearing the compulsory hea
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