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Pak activists, experts term Anti-Rape Ordinance 2020 as 'eyewash'
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 16 (ANI): Rights activists and constitutional experts in Pakistan termed the approved Anti-Rape Ordinance 2020 as useless and eyewash and ruled out the possibility of countering the menace through it.
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Freed PoK activist Baba Jan thanks Gilgit Baltistan people for 'fighting'
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Gilgit Baltistan [PoK], November 28 (ANI): Political activist Baba Jan, who was released on Friday after a decade of unlawful imprisonment by Pakistani authorities, thanked people of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and rights activists for holding protests for his release and said he would have
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Over 760 people detained across Belarus at Sunday opposition rallies: Righ
Updated : 5 years, 4 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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US politicians urge Egyptian president to release activists imprisoned ill
Updated : 5 years, 5 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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Canada: Baloch rights activists protest atrocities by Pakistan, remember d
Updated : 5 years, 5 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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Families of 12 detained activists approach Hong Kong police, to push for c
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Hong Kong, September 20 (ANI): The family members of 12 Hong Kong human rights activists captured at sea last month by the Chinese authorities reported the case to Hong Kong police on Sunday, urging the force to speak to their mainland counterparts for the release of marine data from that da
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China declares 12 arrested Hong Kong activists as 'separatists'
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Beijing [China], September 14 (ANI): After the United States condemned the Hong Kong authorities for denying 12 arrested Hong Kong rights activists access to their lawyers, China has labelled the activists as "separatists".
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US 'deeply concerned' 12 Hong Kong activists denied access to lawyers: Pom
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 12 (ANI): The United States is concerned that 12 Hong Kong rights activists who were arrested two weeks ago have been denied access to their lawyers, said Secretary of State Michael Pompeo on Friday (local time).
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UN expresses concerns over violence against journalists, human rights acti
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 9 (ANI): The United Nations Human Rights Office on Tuesday expressed its concern over the increasing instances of threats of violence against journalists and human rights activists in Pakistan.
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Killing of Baloch student in Pakistan creates outrage, activists demand ju
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Toronto/ London [Canada/UK] August 20 (ANI): Baloch political and human rights activists have displayed their extreme anger over the killing of 25-year-old Hayat Baloch, a science undergraduate at Karachi University.
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Sindhis hold massive protest in Karachi on the eve of Pakistan's Independe
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], Aug 14 (ANI): Pakistan Police used force to stop the protesters, including family members of the missing persons and human rights activists, outside the Karachi Press Club on the eve of Independence Day.
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Human rights activists stage demonstrations against China at Hachiko statu
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], June 28 (ANI): Several human rights activists of various nationalities, including Japanese, Indians, Taiwanese, Tibetans and others, staged a demonstration against China at Hachiko statue near Shibuya station in Tokyo on Sunday.
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