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We stand with Hong Kong people, says US Secretary of State
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [US], July 16 (ANI): US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo on Wednesday (local time) said that his country stands with the people of Hong Kong where Beijing has recently imposed the draconian security law, which many say is aimed at crushing dissent.
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Hong Kong Security law a tool to quash dissent, west needs to take action
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 05 (ANI): The new Hong Kong security law, which is commonly dubbed as the anti-protest law, is a tool deployed by the Chinese government to quash dissent, said Global Affairs analyst Michael Bociurkiw. He said that the West needs to take definitive actions and just cond
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Hong Kong's pro-democracy books suspended from lending
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Hong Kong, July 5 (ANI): The pro-China Carrie Lam government has started implementing the national security law to quash dissent as after banning the annual pro-democracy march in Hong Kong, the government in its latest move has started suspending the lending of several books written by p
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New law will enable China muzzle dissent voices, handle 'rare' Hong Kong n
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Hong Kong, June 16 (ANI): Hong Kong's contentious national security law will aid China in muzzling voices of dissent against the Chinese government and, according to a senior official, it will give Beijing jurisdiction over "some extremely rare" national security cases in Hong Kong.
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Pakistan: Corona, food shortages and political dissent
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Glasgow [Scotland], June 1 (ANI): There have been 19 new cases of the novel coronavirus in Gilgit, 11 in Skardu and 3 in Nagar, bringing the total number of infected patients in Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan (PoGB) to 711 on Monday.
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Activists believe Beijing's proposed national security law will snatch awa
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Hong Kong, May 29 (ANI): Beijing's endorsement of a national security law tailoring Hong Kong from acts of secession, subversion, terrorism or conspiring with foreign influences, activists believe, will soon lead to an imposition of arbitrary detentions and crackdowns on free speech and diss
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China fabricated info about COVID-19 spread, say experts
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Montreal [Canada], April 14 (ANI): Experts have criticized Chinese President Xi Jinping for concealing, destroying and fabricating information about the rampant spread of COVID-19 and suppressing the data by silencing and criminalising dissent.
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Criticism of institutions can't be termed as anti-national: SC judge Deepa
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 24 (ANI): Supreme Court Judge Deepak Gupta on Monday said that criticism of any institution, be it legislative, executive, judiciary or the armed forces, by anyone cannot be termed as anti-national.
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Dissent part of democracy but you can't get your rights by blocking road:
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 23 (ANI): Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Saturday said that dissent and consensus are part of democracy but you cannot get your rights by blocking the road.
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BJP MLAs hold meeting to discuss Yediyurappa's leadership capabilities: BJ
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Feb 18 (ANI): Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa is facing major dissent within the party and the BJP MLAs held a meeting on Tuesday night at former Chief Minister Jagdish Shettar's residence to discuss the functioning of Yediyurappa-led government, said B
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Justice DY Chandrachud warns against "blanket labeling of dissent as anti-
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], February 15 (ANI): Supreme Court judge Justice DY Chandrachud on Saturday said that labeling "dissent as anti-national or anti-democratic" hurts the constitutional values.
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Sawaikar hits out at Archbishop Ferrao amid statement
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Panaji (Goa) [India], Feb 10, ANI: Two days after Goa Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao expressed his dissent against the CAA, Goa BJP General Secretary Narendra Sawaikar retaliated to the archbishop's claims of the act being "divisive and discriminatory".
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