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Baloch is graver issue than Rohingya Muslims: Activist
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar. 13 (ANI): As the Baloch political and human rights activists have demanded a special rapporteur in the United Nations to probe gross human rights violations in Pakistan's Balochistan province, Baloch activist Ahmar Mastikhan has stressed that Balochistan is a
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China dismisses human rights activists torture claims as 'fake news&#
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
London [U.K.], Mar. 03 (ANI): China has branded claims that a leading human rights lawyer was tortured by government agents as 'fake news.'
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SC to hear pleas seeking to stop killing of stray dogs
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar. 1 (ANI): The Supreme Court will on Wednesday resume its hearing on a bunch of pleas filed by animal rights activists as well as a group of people seeking to stop killing of stray dogs.
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Democrats concerned over raids, arrests by immigration authorities
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [United States], Feb. 12 (ANI): Immigrant rights activists and Democrats have questioned the recent raids and arrests made by the U.S. federal immigration authorities across the country.
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Delhi: Women activists demand hanging of serial rapist
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan. 16 (ANI): Following the arrest of serial rapist Sunil Rastogi, accused of assaulting and raping minor girls, the women's rights activists on Monday demanded strict punishment and immediate hanging of the culprit.
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Protest in UK over missing Pakistani activists
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
London [UK], Jan. 15 (ANI): Dozens of Pakistani human rights activists gathered outside the Pakistan High Commission in London to protest the disappearances of political activists.
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Three Chinese rights activists vanish
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Hong Kong [China], Dec.2 (ANI): Three prominent Chinese rights activists appear to have been detained in recent weeks by the police, part of a continuing crackdown on groups operating outside the umbrella of the state, advocacy groups say.
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Arrest, deportation of Baloch and human rights activists by Thailand invit
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Bangkok [Thailand], Nov.30 (ANI): The detention and deportation of two Baloch political activists and a human rights campaigner by authorities in Thailand has invited global condemnation.
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Trump names hardliners for three key appointments, rights activists unhapp
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New York [US], Nov. 19 (ANI): U S President-elect Donald Trump has named conservatives rather than appointing more moderate-leaning candidates for three key members of the national security team for his administration, signaling he will stand by his hardline agenda on which he campaigned.
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EU rights activists shocked over Waziristan market demolition as punishmen
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium]/Geneva [Switzerland], Nov. 6 (ANI): European Union human rights watchdogs and rights activists based in Brussels and Geneva have expressed shock and dismay over the Pakistan Army and local authorities move to dynamite and demolish the Al-Muhib market in the popular Rustam
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Brussels-based rights activists aware of developing links between Pakistan
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], Oct.21 (ANI): Human rights activists based in Brussels, Belgium, have noted the strong and deep developing links between Pakistan and Rohingya militants.
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Rights activists express disappointment over Pakistan electronic media ign
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Sept.17 (ANI): Rights activists have expressed their dismay and disappointment over the electronic media in Pakistan turning deaf and a blind eye to the terrorist attack on a mosque in the Mohmand tribal agency, saying that had that incident happened in Kashmir in India
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