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Over 760 people detained across Belarus at Sunday opposition rallies: Righ
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Minsk [Belarus], November 16 (ANI/Sputnik): More than 760 people were detained during unauthorised anti-government protests held across Belarus Sunday, the unregistered Viasna human rights centre said.
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PoK has suffered under Pak rule for 73 years: activist Amjad Mirza urges B
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Glasglow [Scotland], November 11 (ANI): Asserting that Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) has been suffering for the past 73 years under Pakistan colonialism, human rights activist Amjad Ayub Mirza on Wednesday urged the US President-elect Joe Biden to "heal" the "wounded people and divide peop
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Pakistan rights activist claims harassment at President House
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], November 11 (ANI): Maria Iqbal Tarana, a rights activist in Pakistan, on Monday accused a senior government official of harassing her while she was visiting the President House for an event.
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Ask Pakistan to withdraw troops, non-state actors from PoK, rights activis
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Glasglow [Scotland], November 9 (ANI): Asserting that Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) has suffered "unspeakable atrocities" at hands of the Pakistani state, human rights activist Amjad Ayub Mirza on Monday urged US President-elect Joe Biden to "forcefully ask" Islamabad to withdraw its tr
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Pakistan authorities using anti-terror laws to curb dissent voices: Activi
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 7 (ANI): Pakistan authorities in the country are using regressive anti-terrorism, cybercrime, and sedition laws to curb voices of dissent instead of taking actions to end terrorism in the country, said human rights activist Gulalai Ismail.
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Revolt in bureaucracy against Imran Khan government imminent, says Pak act
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], October 28 (ANI): Pakistan human rights activist Dr AA Mirza on Tuesday claimed that a revolt in bureaucracy against the Imran Khan government was imminent.
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US politicians urge Egyptian president to release activists imprisoned ill
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Cairo [Egypt], October 19 (ANI): More than 50 politicians of the United States have urged Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to release activists, journalists, lawyers, and prisoners of conscience detained illegally in Egyptian prisons.
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Another Hindu Temple vandalised in Pakistan
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
London [UK], October 11 (ANI): Condemning the recent vandalism of Hindu Temple in Pakistan's Sindh region, London-based Pakistani human rights activist and spokeswoman for Justice for Minorities in Pakistan Anila Gulzar said that only 20 temples out of 428 are left.
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Famous Baloch singer shot dead in Pakistan
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Quetta [Balochistan], October 10 (ANI): In another incident of lawlessness in Pakistan, unidentified gunmen shot dead a popular local singer and father of a human rights activist in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, police said.
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What message central BJP government wants to give by arresting Stan Swamy
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Ranchi (Jharkhand) [India], October 10 (ANI): A day after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) took Jharkhand-based tribal rights activist and Jesuit priest, Father Stan Swamy, into custody in the Bhima Koregaon Elgar Parishad case, Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Friday attacked the centr
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Hathras case: Civil rights activist moves SC for court-monitored CBI probe
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 8 (ANI): Civil rights activist Teesta Setalvad led Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) has approached the Supreme Court to transfer the Hathras case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and ensure proper witness protection is accorded in the case.
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Canada: Baloch rights activists protest atrocities by Pakistan, remember d
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Toronto [Canada], October 4 (ANI): Canadian Baloch rights activists protested against Pakistani atrocities in Balochistan. October 4 commemorates the fourth year of the disappearance of Baloch student leader, Shabir Baloch who was arrested and disappeared on Oct 4, 2016, from Awaran, Balo
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