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Year since Hasina fled, rights challenges abound in Bangladesh, says HRW
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
Some of the fear and repression that marked Sheikh Hasina's Awami League Party's 15-year rule, and abuses such as widespread enforced disappearances, appear to have ended.
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Netherlands: BNM holds protest outside Pak embassy demanding justice for '
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
The demonstration was aimed at exposing Pakistan's ongoing policy of state repression in Balochistan, including enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings.
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Protest erupts in Quetta over enforced disappearance of Ghani Baloch; fami
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
His family claims that Ghani Baloch was taken into custody by Pakistani security forces on May 25. Since that date, they have experienced "no sign of our family's guiding light," expressing their feelings of "heartbreak, grief, and helplessness."
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Two young men go missing in Balochistan amid rising concern over enforced
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
Hakeem Baloch recently graduated with an LLB degree from Bahawalpur, Punjab, and had only just begun his legal practice in Balochistan. His disappearance has raised concerns among civil society organisations, human rights advocates, and the legal community. They have expressed worry over
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Pakistan's crimes continue unabated against Baloch youth
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
Pakistan continues with its spree of crimes against Baloch youth, leading Baloch body Paank shared the details on Thursday of forcible disappearances where civilians have been targeted by 'state forces and affiliated death squads'.
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Baloch families protest in Islamabad for 8th day, demand recovery of missi
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
Despite continuous rain and deteriorating weather conditions, the protesters, who include women, children, and the elderly, persist in their nonviolent demonstration. However, authorities have not yet allowed them to establish a proper protest camp in front of the National Press Club, leavin
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Baloch families enter 7th day of Islamabad sit-in, demand release of BYC l
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
"Today marks the seventh consecutive day of the Islamabad sit-in by Baloch families demanding the release of Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) leaders and an end to enforced disappearances in Balochistan," stated the post on X.
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Paank condemns continued extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearance
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
Paank expresses solidarity with Mazar Baloch's family and all those affected by state violence, urging for an end to impunity and the safeguarding of human rights in Balochistan.
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Protest outside 10 Downing Street marks 5 years since disappearance of Mir
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
A protest was demonstrated outside 10 Downing Street to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Mir Taj Muhammad Sarparah and to call for the release of all Baloch missing individuals and BYC.
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'Clear violation of human rights, international law': Paank decries ongoin
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
Paank, the Baloch National Movement's human rights wing, expressed concern over the ongoing wave of enforced disappearances taking place across Balochistan and Sindh. It gave a call for the immediate release of all the disappeared persons.
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State suppression in Islamabad: Pakistan denies Baloch families' right to
Updated : 7 months, 4 weeks ago IST
Pakistani authorities have intensified efforts to suppress the demonstration by barring families from reaching the protest site and sealing off roads leading to the Islamabad Press Club, on the fourth consecutive day of a sit-in protest by families of forcibly disappeared persons and detaine
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Pakistan accused of silencing Baloch Voices as families protest enforced d
Updated : 8 months ago IST
Families of detained Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) leaders and relatives of forcibly disappeared persons from Balochistan have launched a sit-in protest outside the National Press Club in Islamabad, demanding an immediate end to enforced disappearances and the release of all detained activ
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