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Pakistan: Rights Group condemns blasphemy allegations, mob attack on Chris
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
The incident began when Nazir Masih and Sultan Masih were accused of desecrating pages of the Quran and discarding them in front of their factory.
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China pressuring Tibetans to relocate from long-established villages: Huma
Updated : 2 years, 1 month 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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Pak human rights body raises concerns over defamation bill proposed in Pun
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
HRCP has consistently decried special parallel judicial structures because they invariably violate fundamental rights and other universally accepted norms governing the fair functioning of the judiciary.
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US lawmakers seek sanctions to "punish" ICC over Netanyahu arrest warrant
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Meanwhile, human rights attorney Amal Clooney is among the experts who advised the ICC prosecutor to seek the arrest warrants. The wife of actor George Clooney in a statement explained how she had found herself advising ICC chief prosecutor Khan.
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US condoles deaths of Iran's president, foreign minister in helicopter cra
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
"The United States expresses its official condolences for the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian, and other members of their delegation in a helicopter crash in northwest Iran. As Iran selects a new president, we reaffirm our support for the Iranian p
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Rajnath Singh appeals to global human rights bodies to take cognizance of
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
The international community and human rights bodies should take cognizance of human rights violations in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK), said Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on the last day of his electioneering in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow on Saturday.
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Kurdish leader jailed by Turkey court for 42 years over 2014 deadly riots
Updated : 2 years, 1 month 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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Pak: Islamabad HC seeks report on alleged abduction of Kashmiri journalist
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Ahmed Farhad Shah was allegedly abducted from his home on Wednesday. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan had called on the authorities for his immediate release.
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Activists decry China's repression, call for ending Uyghur and Tibetan opp
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Abduweli Ayup, a Uyghur linguist and poet accused the Chinese government of implementing forced sterilisations and abortions among the Muslim minority in Xinjiang.
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CBI challenges order permitting information on allegations of corruption,
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
CBI through appeal seeks to set aside the single bench order which held that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is not exempted from the RTI and has to provide the information sought on corruption and human rights violation.
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Protests quell in PoJK as Islamabad responds, struggle for rights continue
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
In the statement, the UKPNP highlighted the decades-long denial of fundamental human rights, citing injustice, inequality, and systematic plundering of natural resources as enduring issues.
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Baloch community organises protest in UK condemning Pakistan Army's atroci
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Holding placards and banners of disappeared people in Balochistan, protesters called on the international community to take action and end the human rights violations in Pakistan.
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