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Mass detention of Uyghurs by Chinese govt 'egregious form of settler colon
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 18 (ANI): Highlighting that the Chinese government has detained about 1.8 million Uyghurs since 2017, an anthropologist said that the mass detentions are part of China's settler colonialism and resource extraction in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).
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Afghanistan: Freed women rights activists under pressure to not share deta
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], February 14 (ANI): Four Afghanistan women activists, who were detained by the Taliban regime and later released after a long period of uncertainty, are under pressure not to publicize the details about their detention, their relatives have told local media.
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Days after quite detention, Taliban free foreigners working for UN
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 12 (ANI): Days after their quiet detention, the Taliban freed two western citizens and their two Afghan colleagues on Friday who had been working for the UN after the world body had announced that they had been held by the Taliban for several days in Afghanistan, re
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'Time to end arbitrary detentions', says UN after release of two reporters
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], February 12 (ANI): The UN Mission in Afghanistan has welcomed the release of the two reporters by Afghanistan's de facto authorities after more than four days in custody.
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US, allies call on Sudan to stop political detentions: Statement
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 11 (ANI): A group of Western countries and entities, including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and the European Union, expressed concern over the recent political arrests in Sudan and called on the authorities to stop such practices in a joint statement.
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Sri Lankan govt misusing Prevention of Terrorism Act against Tamil, Muslim
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], February 8 (ANI): The Sri Lankan government is using the discredited Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) to commit prolonged arbitrary detention and torture, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released on Monday.
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Unjust detentions in Afghanistan must stop, says US special envoy
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 4 (ANI): US Special Envoy Rina Amiri has asked the Taliban to stop unjust detentions of Afghans' human rights if the outfit wishes to seek legitimacy from the Afghan people and the world.
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UN Mission in Afghanistan seeks information from Interior Ministry about l
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], February 4 (ANI): The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) on Thursday sought urgent information from the country's Interior Ministry on the latest detentions of two women activists over the last 24 hours by the Taliban.
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US urges coalition allies to improve 'secure' detention of IS fighters aft
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], January 31 (ANI/Sputnik): Washington urges its coalition partners in Syria to enhance secure detention of Islamic State fighters and repatriate their nationals and other detainees remaining in the northeast of the Arab republic, State Department spokesman Ned Price said on M
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Nearly 50,000 people suffered China's surveillance law: Report
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], January 31 (ANI): As many as 50,000 people, including 10,000 in the year 2020 are feared to have been detained in China under a draconian surveillance law passed by the communist leadership under a "systematised, arbitrary and secret detention" policy of the country in which
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Mexican authorities detain first caravan of migrants in 2022
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Mexico City [Mexico], January 22 (ANI/Sputnik): Employees of the National Institute of Migration of Mexico detained on Saturday over 300 people, who were part of the first 2022 caravan of migrants going to the United States from the Mexican state of Chiapas bordering with Guatemala.
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UN chief condemns Saudi-led deadly airstrikes in Yemen's Saada city
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New York [US], January 22 (ANI): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned Friday's airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition against a detention center in Yemen's Saada city.
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