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Shoot 'bad elements' but don't defame entire community, AIUDF chief Badru
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Guwahati (Assam) [India], August 6 (ANI): Amid a crackdown on madrasas in Assam, the Chief of All India United Democratic Front, Badruddin Ajmal on Saturday said that he had no sympathy for bad elements in madrasas and that the authorities should impose detentions and shoot the "bad teachers
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UNHRC special rapporteur to investigate human rights violations in Afghani
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 17 (ANI): The newly appointed United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) special rapporteur on Afghanistan said on Sunday that he will closely examine allegations of torture, disappearances, killings of former government employees and detentions under the Taliban
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UN mission in Afghanistan expresses concern about detentions of journalist
Updated : 3 years, 12 months 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 : 3 years, 12 months 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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Mass detention of Uyghurs by Chinese govt 'egregious form of settler colon
Updated : 4 years 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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'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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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 imposes visa restrictions on 8 Cuban officials: Blinken
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 7 (ANI): The United States imposed visa restrictions on eight officials from Cuba, for attempts to silence the voices of the people through repression, unjust detentions, and harsh prison sentences, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday (local time).
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UN human rights agency condemns arbitrary detention of Tigray people
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Addis Ababa [Ethiopia], November 16 (ANI/Sputnik): UN High Commissioner for Human Rights spokeswoman, Liz Throssell, condemned on Tuesday the continued extra-judicial detentions of people of Tigrayan origin in Ethiopia and called on the country's authorities to respect human rights.
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Pak should take credible steps to end state-sponsored terrorism: India at
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 28 (ANI): India on Monday (local time) asked Pakistan to take credible and irreversible steps to end state-sponsored terrorism and dismantle the terrorist infrastructure in all the territories under its control.
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