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Afghanistan: UN expresses concern over detention of two Afghan journalists
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], March 18 (ANI): The Taliban detained two staffers of leading Afghan broadcaster TOLOnews, media reports said on Friday.
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UN mission in Afghanistan expresses concern about detentions of journalist
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], March 17 (ANI): The United Nations mission in Afghanistan has expressed its deep concern about the detentions of journalists and the increasing restrictions being placed on media in the country.
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Uyghur kids made to recite Chinese propaganda
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Beijing [China], March 16 (ANI): The level of Chinese indoctrination of Uyghur kids has heightened under President Xi Jinping. A video was uploaded by an Uyghur Twitter account on March 14 that showed that Uyghur kids were made to recite Chinese language propaganda.
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Afghanistan: Ex-police officer in Taliban detention since three weeks
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], March 13 (ANI): A former police officer from Kabul, Abdul Sadeq has been in Taliban custody for the last three weeks without any knowledge of whereabouts to family members, Tolo News reported on Saturday.
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New mayor installed in Ukraine's Melitopol city after detention of its ele
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Kyiv [Ukraine], March 13 (ANI): A new mayor has been appointed in Ukraine's Melitopol city after the elected mayor was detained by the Russian forces, according to Zaporizhzhia regional administration.
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Zelenskyy speaks with Scholz, Macron, seeks help for release of Melitopol
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Kyiv [Ukraine], March 12 (ANI): Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the French President Emmanuel Macron and sought help for the release of the Mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov.
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Ukrainian foreign ministry calls detention of Melitopol mayor a 'war crime
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Kyiv [Ukraine], March 12 (ANI): The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has posted a hard-hitting statement on its Facebook account that calls the detention of the Melitopol mayor a "war crime."
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China: Uyghur scholar gets 10-year imprisonment for promoting separatism,
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Beijing [China], March 10 (ANI): A Uyghur professor and translator has been sentenced to 10-year imprisonment in China's Xinjiang for "separatism" and "promoting Western culture", said a media report citing a village official and the convicted man's former Uyghur classmate.
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Nearly 800 Uyghurs detained by Chinese authorities in Xinjiang's Manas cou
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Beijing [China], March 6 (ANI): Chinese authorities have detained nearly 800 Uyghurs in Manas county of Xinjiang region, said a media report citing an official from the area who previously worked at the detention facility.
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Turkey closes Uyghur elementary school in Istanbul after China complains o
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Istanbul [Turkey], March 2 (ANI): Turkey has closed an Uyghur elementary school in Istanbul after China complained of anti-Beijing instruction imparted in the institution.
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Former Kazakh Defense Minister detained over authorities inaction case
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Nur Sultan [Kazakhstan], February 21 (ANI/Sputnik): Murat Bektanov, who was dismissed from the post of Kazakh defence minister in January amid nationwide unrest, was detained in the case of the inaction of the authorities, the Prosecutor General's Office said on Monday.
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Delhi HC orders release of accused as he was not explained ground behind d
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 19 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Friday passed an order to release an accused from detention, who is a school dropout, over the grounds that he was not explained the grounds of detention in a language he understood.
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