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Amid political instability Pakistan moving towards anarchy
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
It is unprecedented in Pakistan's 75 years of independence, where an opposition political leader is not succumbing to the combined pressure from the Pakistan army and the government in power. The head-on collision between the two sides is reaching a saturation point and may possibly lead to
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US House panel on China highlights abuse of Uyghurs
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Rights groups accuse Beijing of abuses, including forced labour, mass surveillance and the placement of 1 million or more Uyghurs - a mainly Muslim ethnic group - in a network of internment camps in Xinjiang.
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Pro-Tibet rights groups to hold march in Taipei to show solidarity with Ti
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The annual march also seeks to showcase the plight of Hong Kongers and people in Xinjiang.
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Pro-Tibetans to hold march in Taipei to show solidarity with Tibetans, oth
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The march held annually in early March since 2004, was originally intended to commemorate those who died during a Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule that began on March 10, 1959.
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Pro-Tibet rally to be held in Taiwan on March 5
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Pro-Tibet and human rights groups are going to hold a march in Taiwan's Taipei on Sunday to show their solidarity with Tibetans and other minority groups facing oppression in China, the Taipei Times reported.
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Tibetan Rights Groups condemn Thermo Fisher Scientific for supplying DNA k
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The campaign condemned the company for keeping profit before people by selling DNA kits and their continuous technical assistance to the Chinese police forces in Tibet.
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Canadian MP urges Trudeau's cabinet to make room for Uyghur refugees
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Human rights groups estimate more than one million Uyghurs are currently kept in prison-like indoctrination camps, which Beijing calls "re-education camps." Most of the Uyghurs and other Turkic communities have fled to Muslim-majority countries like Turkey, Egypt, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia s
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Pashtun community fights for equal rights and dignity in Pakistan
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
So-called "encounter killings" are common in Pakistan. Rights groups say when police lack enough evidence for a court conviction, they extrajudicially kill suspects.
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US company supplied DNA collection equipment used in Tibet by China: repor
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
The Citizen Lab report referenced above found that police collected DNA samples from roughly a quarter to a third of the population of the TAR. Citizen Lab's analysis determined that the activity was not apparently related to any criminal activity and that police targeted men, women, and
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China's DNA profiling campaigns attract global opposition: Report
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
The report said that one campaign is about the mass scanning of the irises of people in the Qinghai province and the other is about mass blood sampling of Tibetan people for their DNA profiling.
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Boat adrift at sea for weeks carrying Rohingya refugees reaches Indonesia'
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
A boat carrying Rohingya refugees which was adrift for a month at Sea has finally landed in Indonesia's Aceh, VOA news reported on Monday citing the two rights groups that have been tracking the vessel.
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Chinese tech firms under criticism for spying in Europe:Report
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Chinese Technology companies such as Huawei, ZTE Corps and Hikvision have been heavily criticized by human rights groups for providing surveillance technology not only for authoritarian regimes but also for espionage activities at the behest of the Chinese Communist Party.
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