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Pak rights group condemns desecration of Ahmadiyya worship site in Punjab
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
This week, the Express Tribune newspaper reported that a historic worship place of the Ahmadi community in Wazirabad was allegedly desecrated by the district administration.
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Ali Wazir: Face of Pakistan's non-violent movement in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Wazir has been consistently targeted for his unequivocal criticism of the Pakistani Army and the human rights abuses that the Pashtun ethnic minority face in Waziristan and neighbouring border areas in the former Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA), now a part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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Chinese embassy 'firmly opposes' UK's Hong Kong report
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
On Thursday, the UK foreign office published a six-monthly report on Hong Kong, stating that "the Chinese and Hong Kong authorities are undermining the rights and freedoms promised to Hong Kongers under the Sino-British Joint Declaration."
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World taken aback by revelation of a scandal in the European Parliament: R
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Sabotage of the EP, an important diplomatic body known for applying pressure to hostile regimes or those that engage in human rights abuses or anti-democratic behaviour, threatens to blow up into a major crisis at the heart of the European Union.
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China sanctions 2 American citizens in response to US action over Tibet ri
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
This comes amid a continuing standoff between the nations over the treatment of minority communities by the Chinese government.
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Scottish Govt to phase out Hikvision, China's CCTV surveillance system fro
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Scotland has decided to phase out Hikvision, China's CCTV surveillance system equipment and is stripping them out of Scottish buildings, writes Sellainne Cathry in Vision Times.
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US announces sanctions against human rights abusers in Iran
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Responding to a query over supporting protesters in Iran, Sullivan said, "We have had a drumbeat of announcements relative to sanctions against those who are perpetrating these gross human rights abuses and this repression. We haven't just done so ourselves, we have coordinated and aligned
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China rejects UK report on its human rights abuses
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
In a report titled, "Human Rights and Democracy,", the British foreign office said the human rights situation in China continued to deteriorate in 2021, and "widespread, systematic human rights violations and abuses in Xinjiang grew.
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Protests held across US over China's human rights abuses
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Condemning the Chinese government's rights abuses, various ethnic groups including members of the Tibetan and Uyghur community protested in cities on the West Coast of the United States.
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Tibetan community in Vienna holds demonstration against 'human rights abus
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
On Human Rights Day, the Tibetans raised slogans against alleged excesses of the CCP on Tibetans, Uyghurs and Chinese citizens in China.
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US announce sanctions on 2 Chinese officials involved in serious human rig
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
US on Friday announced sanctions on two Chinese officials for serious human rights abuse in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), according to the US Department of Treasury.
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'Deeply disturbing': UN on first public execution since Taliban takeover
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Taliban on Wednesday carried out the first public execution of a man charged with murder since the militant group took over the country last year, Voice of America (VOA) reported. Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said the public execution of a man took place in a sports stadium in wes
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