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Repressive policies impelled 'great exodus' in China since Xi's take over
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Hong Kong, August 5 (ANI): Since Xi Jinping became President of China in 2013, human rights activists or anyone who supports and echoes democracy has been constantly targeted by the government, while suppression of ethnic minorities has become the new normal.
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UKPNP chief accuses Pakistan agency of torturing PoK residents
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Muzaffarabad [PoK], August 1 (ANI): Human rights activist and chairman of United Kashmir People's National Party (UKPNP) Shaukat Ali Kashmiri has accused the Pakistani state agency of torturing the resident of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir and said "let us protest."
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UKPNP chief protests against land grab by Pak Army in PoK
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Muzaffarabad [PoK], August 1 (ANI): Human rights activist and chairman of United Kashmir People's National Party (UKPNP) Shaukat Ali Kashmiri has highlighted the land grabbing by the Pakistan Army in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and urged environmentalists to take note of its adverse impa
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Conference on Kashmir in Leeds slams Pakistan rights abuses in PoJK
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Leeds [UK], July 30 (ANI): Kashmiri Nationalist human rights activists, thinkers, politicians and other renowned diaspora personalities gathered in Leeds, UK under the aegis of UKPNP which organised the International Kashmir Conference to discuss the rights situation in Pakistan-occupied
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Activists in Nepal demonstrate at UN Office against execution of four pris
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Lalitpur [Nepal], July 26 (ANI): Human rights activists and advocates have demonstrated in front of the United Nations Nepal Office against the execution of four prisoners in military-ruled Myanmar.
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Missing Baloch people being executed by Pakistani security forces, says ac
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 19 (ANI): A human rights activist on Tuesday said that missing Baloch people are being executed in the custody of Pakistani security forces.
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'Non-Violence works': Tibetan human rights activist in veiled attack on Ch
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 24 (ANI): In a veiled attack on China, International Campaign for Tibet, Chairman Richard Gere who advocates for the human rights in Tibet said that irrespective of the time it takes someone to change its path and tread on the path of non-violence, it still works.
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Afghani child labourers increase in Iran since Taliban takeover
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 16 (ANI): The number of Afghan child labourers in Iran has surged 20 times since the Taliban assumed control of Afghanistan on 15 August 2021, claimed human rights activists cited by Iranian media.
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China vows to root out political opposition by arresting human rights acti
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 16 (ANI): In yet another escalation in China's crackdown on human rights, the country is violating the right of the detained activists accused of "subversion of state power" in carrying out the legal procedures to defend themselves.
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Humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan 'nowhere' near over: Human rights activ
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 4 (ANI): Associate women's rights director and former senior Afghanistan researcher at Human Rights Watch, Heather Barr, has said that the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan is nowhere near over.
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Pakistan effects deep cut in PoK budget, activist calls situation 'alarmin
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Muzaffarabad [PoK], June 2 (ANI): Highlighting the plight of the people of Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK), human rights activist and chairman of United Kashmir People's National Party (UKPNP) Shaukat Ali Kashmiri said that the Pakistani government has cut the PoK development budget by Rs 2.
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Norwegian investigating Baloch disappearances in Pakistan brutally torture
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 17 (ANI): A Norwegian national and Human Rights Activist Ehsan Arjemandi, who went to Pakistan to investigate a large number of enforced disappearances of Baloch people was arbitrarily detained and brutally tortured.
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