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Pakistan's new cyber law sparks free speech concerns, rights groups demand
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
Human Rights Watch on Tuesday said that internet freedom and free expression are gravely threatened by Pakistan's government's recent amendment to the country's cybercrimes act.
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Human Rights Watch suggests urgent reforms for Bangladesh's return to demo
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
Bangladesh's interim government, led by Muhammad Yunus, faces mounting pressure to implement structural reforms after the ousting of Sheikh Hasina's authoritarian regime. Human Rights Watch urges systemic changes in governance, law enforcement, and judiciary to ensure lasting democracy an
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Human Rights Watch highlights Pakistan government's crackdown on free expr
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's government, which took office in February 2024, is perpetuating a longstanding crackdown on free expression and civil society, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday in its World Report 2025.
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Bangladesh to probe 2009 BDR mutiny, role of domestic and foreign conspira
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Bangladesh's Major General (Retd) ALM Fazlur Rahman, chairman of newly-formed National Independent Commission on Thursday said that the commission will probe the 2009 mutiny, and exposing the "domestic and foreign conspiracies," according to a report by Dhaka Tribune.
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Tightening grip on dissent: 45 pro-democracy activists sentenced to prison
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
In a stark demonstration of the tightening grip on dissent, Hong Kong's High Court sentenced 45 pro-democracy activists to prison terms of up to 10 years under the controversial National Security Law imposed by Beijing.
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Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of "deliberate forced displacement" of P
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
A recent Human Rights Watch (HRW) report highlighted the "alarming actions" of Israeli authorities and said that the authorities carried out "deliberate forced displacement" of Palestinian civilians in Gaza since October 2023 and are responsible for "war crimes and crimes against humanity."
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Japan protests UN call for reviewing male-only imperial succession
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
Japan has lodged a protest with a UN human rights watchdog that called for reviewing a domestic law that limits imperial succession to male heirs on the emperor's father side, the top government spokesman said on Wednesday.
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Rights group urges China to release 'Bridge Man' Peng Lifa on second anniv
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has demanded the immediate release of Peng Lifa, the man who unfurled banners critical of Chinese President Xi Jinping and his stringent "Zero-Covid" policy on Beijing's Sitong Bridge two years ago.
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Human Rights Watch claims academic freedom in Hong Kong nosedived after im
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
The educational freedom in Hong Kong continues to decline as the Chinese government imposed the National Security Law on the city on June 30, 2020.
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Amnesty International condemns extrajudicial killings in Pakistan, urges r
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
Amnesty International, an International human rights watchdog, has raised serious concerns about the ongoing extrajudicial killings of individuals accused of blasphemy in Pakistan, calling out the government for failing to protect basic human rights, including the right to life and freedom o
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Bangladesh shipyard explosion highlights regulatory failures
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
A deadly explosion at the MT Suvarna Swarajya shipbreaking yard in Bangladesh on September 7, 2024, has exposed significant regulatory shortcomings in the international and national oversight of the shipbreaking industry. Human Rights Watch and the NGO Shipbreaking Platform highlight the dan
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Human Rights Watch asks China to release Taiwanese political activist
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
In China, Yang's trial took place behind closed doors, and the details of his sentence were not announced until September 6 this year.
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