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US commission on religious freedom raises alarm over China's extradition t
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], December 31 (ANI): The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) on Wednesday expressed shock over the reports that China has ratified an extradition treaty with Turkey that could target Muslim minority Uyghurs fleeing persecution from Xinjiang province.
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Protests in Bangladesh's cities against China, Pakistan for persecution of
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], December 10 (ANI): On the occasion of Human Rights' Day, hundreds of people hit the streets of Dhaka and Sylhet to protest against China and Pakistan for persecuting their minorities.
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Mumbai: Raza Academy president, 5 members detained for protesting outside
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 10 (ANI): President of Raza Academy M Saeed Noori and five members were detained for protesting outside the Chinese Consulate here against China's atrocities on Uyghur Muslims, Mumbai Police said on Thursday.
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US top panel urges removing barriers on visa for Hong Kong dissidents
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 2 (ANI): The United States top panel on Wednesday recommended to the Congress to remove barriers on US visa rule for Hong Kong residents, who are attempting to flee in fear of political persecution.
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Pak scribe says Imran Khan-govt silent on Uyghur persecution but lectures
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], November 29 (ANI): Highlighting the hypocrisy of Pakistan, which remains silent on Uyghur Muslims persecution in China, but lectures France on religious freedom, Pakistan-based journalist Kunwar Khuldune Shahid says Islamabad cannot replicate the apparent religious t
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Uyghur poet continues writing in internment camps, his poems testimony of
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 25 (ANI): A Uyghur poet, who had been sent to Chinese internment camps in 2018, continues to write poetry while being locked up in the cell and his poems are the "powerful testaments" to a continuing catastrophe in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
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Boris Johnson urges Pakistan govt to guarantee fundamental rights of citiz
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
London [UK], November 12 (ANI): British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, during a Parliament session on Wednesday, urged Pakistan to guarantee the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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Tales of Uyghurs who disappeared overnight in Xinjiang
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], November 11 (ANI): The US Holocaust Memorial Museum here has recorded the tales of several Uyghur living in exile after fleeing Chinese state-sponsored persecution in Western China province of Xinjiang. The horrifying tales of oppression told by those who were lucky to es
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Dissidents blame military intervention in politics for Pak's multiple cris
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [USA], October 13 (ANI): Terming Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan as a "military puppet", Pakistani dissidents have blamed the military-dominated hybrid system for country's multiple crises.
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China along with its allies turn blind eye on persecution of Islam in East
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 9 (ANI): The persecution of Islam in East Turkestan by China is unparalleled. The demolition of thousands of mosques and the prohibition of religious symbols go hand-in-hand with the establishment of concentration camps and human-rights violations qualify as genocide
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Uyghur activist to discuss 'Persecution of Islam in East Turkestan' by Chi
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], October 5 (ANI): Continuing with the efforts to stop China violating human rights in the Xinjiang region, a webinar will be held on October 8 to dicuss the persecution of the Uyghurs.
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Activist urges UN to prevent ongoing 'genocide' in Balochistan by Pakistan
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 29 (ANI): Accusing Pakistan of conducting the worst forms of violence and persecution against the people of Balochistan, Chairperson Baloch People's Congress, Naela Quadri Baloch, has urged United Nations to intervene to prevent the ongoing "genocide" in the r
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