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Pakistani man issues threats to prevent Gurdwara from reopening
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
A widely shared video on social media shows local Muslims in Faisalabad, Pakistan, opposing the reopening of a Gurdwara that has been closed for 76 years.
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Pakistan's Defence Minister admits minorities being targeted in name of re
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
During a session of Pakistan's national assembly, Khawaja Asif, the country's defence minister, acknowledged that minorities are facing targeted violence in the name of religion.
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Pakistani journalist voices safety concerns amid threats
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
Arzoo Kazmi, a prominent journalist based in Pakistan, took to social media to voice serious concerns about her safety within her homeland.
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East Turkistan Government in-Exile condemns China's village name changes a
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
The ETGE condemned these actions as part of China's broader strategy to erase the rich heritage of East Turkistan and emphasised the urgent need for global intervention to halt what it described as a genocidal campaign.
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Human rights organisations voice concern over situation in Xinjiang, call
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the International Service for Human Rights, and the World Uyghur Congress said that the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, should provide a public update of measures taken by the Chinese government and his office to addr
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China changes village names as part of cultural destruction of Uyghur comm
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
These names are being replaced with names reflecting the Chinese Communist Party ideology.
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China promotes Xinjiang, epicentre of human-rights abuses, as tourist dest
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
China's Xinjiang region, which has been under the scanner for violating human rights, has now been shown as a far more idyllic view of the region as instructed and funded by Xi Jinping government to promote it as a tourist destination through a television drama, the Wall Street Journal repor
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Chinese govt orchestrates steps to suppress commemorations of upcoming Tia
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
The Chinese administration has orchestrated several arrests of activists who desired to organise the commemoration ceremonies of the 35th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre to be held on Tuesday in China and Hong Kong, a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) stated on Sunday.
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Human Rights Watch raises concerns over forceful eviction of low-income re
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
The 48-page report titled 'I Escaped with Only My Life:' Abusive Forced Evictions in Pakistan,' stated that authorities have evicted thousands of people without adequate consultation, notice, compensation, resettlement assistance, or means of redress in violation of their basic rights; di
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China pressuring Tibetans to relocate from long-established villages: Huma
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
The 71-page report - 'Educate the Masses to Change Their Minds: China's Coercive Relocation of Rural Tibetans,' details how participation in "whole-village relocation" programs in Tibet, in which entire villages are relocated, amounts to forced eviction in violation of international law.
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Kurdish leader jailed by Turkey court for 42 years over 2014 deadly riots
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
A Turkish Court has sentenced over 20 Kurdish politicians, including former presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtas, on bogus charges of crimes against the state and for their role in the 2014 deadly riots that erupted as Islamic State group overran the Syrian town of Kobane, reported Hum
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UN refugee agency, Thailand authorities share conflicting explanations on
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
The Unites Nations refugee agency and the Thailand authorities have given conflicting explanations on why the cases of dozens of Uyghurs who fled China a decade ago and have been indefinitely detained in Thailand, are still in limbo, as reported by Voice of America (VOA).
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