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Hong Kong Police bans annual July 1 pro-democracy protests after China pas
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Hong Kong, July 1 (ANI): Hours after China passed the controversial national security law, the Hong Kong government has started attacking the freedom of speech and expression as for the first time the July 1 annual pro-democracy march has been banned.
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UN experts call for decisive measures against China for collective repress
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 29 (ANI): A group of independent experts have called upon the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to "act with a sense of urgency" in taking decisive measures to protect human rights and fundamental freedoms in Tibet and Xinjiang province.
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Combating COVID-19: NHRC sends report to Delhi govt after team's visit to
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 29 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) sent a report, providing suggestions to the Delhi government after its team visited the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash (LNJP) Hospital earlier this month.
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Cong seeks Telangana SHRC direction to State Govt to protect lives, provid
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], June 29 (ANI): Ponnam Prabhakar, TPCC Executive President and Former MP Karimnagar, has written to the Telangana State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) Chairman stating that two COVID-19 patients died as a result of government neglect on Sunday.
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Human rights activists stage demonstrations against China at Hachiko statu
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], June 28 (ANI): Several human rights activists of various nationalities, including Japanese, Indians, Taiwanese, Tibetans and others, staged a demonstration against China at Hachiko statue near Shibuya station in Tokyo on Sunday.
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Riot police stop peaceful protest in Hong Kong against security law
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Hong Kong June 28 (ANI): Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters on Sunday vowed to walk silently from Jordan to Mong Kok to demonstrate against impending Hong Kong security law. However, they were stopped by riot police, Hong Kong Free Press reported.
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Two staffers of human rights organisation killed in Kabul
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 27 (ANI): Two employees of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) were killed in an IED explosion on Saturday morning in PD12 of Kabul in the Pul-e-Charkhi area in the east of the city.
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Imran Khan's government continues to muzzle academicians taking anti-govt
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 27 (ANI): Pakistan has always been in the news for committing gross human rights violations. Under the Imran Khan-led democratic government a number of universities have been forced to sack their professors who spoke or supported anti-government campaigns, reported
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NHRC issues notice to UP govt over killing of journo by sand mafias
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 26 (ANI): National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that a journalist was allegedly killed by sand mafias in the Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh on June 19.
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UN experts call for decisive measures to protect fundamental freedoms in C
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 26 (ANI): Independent experts from the United Nations have called for decisive measures to protect fundamental freedoms in China as they raised deep concerns over treatment of Uighur Muslim minority in Xinjiang and said the impending national security law concernin
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Kanimozhi writes to NHRC over 'custodial' death of two men in Tuticorin
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Tuticorin (Tamil Nadu) [India], June 26 (ANI): DMK MP Kanimozhi Karunanidhi has written to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) over the alleged custodial deaths of a man and his son who were arrested for allegedly violating lockdown restrictions in Tuticorin district on June 19.
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Pompeo releases Trafficking in Persons report, says US always stood in def
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], June 26 (ANI): US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo on Thursday (local time) released the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report and said that the United States has "always stood" in defence of human rights "like no other nation".
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