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Lhasa police offer rewards for reporting dissenting views, Tibetan activis
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Lhasa [Tibet], July 9 (ANI): The Lhasa Municipality Public Security Bureau has offered rewards for Tibetans reporting on crimes against "state security" in order to "build an iron wall of stability," according to a Washington-based advocacy group.
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UNHRC calls for restraint ahead of Sri Lanka protest
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], July 9 (ANI): Ahead of what is expected to be a large demonstration in Colombo on Saturday, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights urged Sri Lankan authorities to show restraint in the policing of assemblies and ensure every necessary effort to prevent violence.
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Biden announces new steps aimed at safeguarding abortion rights
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Washington [US], July 8 (ANI): US President Joe Biden on Friday (local time) announced new steps aimed at protecting abortion rights in response to the landmark decision by the Supreme Court overturning Roe vs Wade, a decades-old decision that had established a constitutional right to abo
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Former US cop Derek Chauvin gets 21 years for George Floyd's murder
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Washington [US], July 8 (ANI): Former US police officer Derek Chauvin, convicted of the murder of African American man George Floyd, was sentenced to more than 20 years in prison on Thursday on federal charges.
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UN envoy meets Hamid Karzai to discuss pressing issues affecting Afghans
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 8 (ANI): UN deputy representative to Afghanistan Potzel Markus met former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai on Thursday to discuss pressing issues affecting the people of Afghanistan.
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Pakistan: Imran Khan-led PTI urge masses to take to streets for their righ
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 7 (ANI): Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) urged the masses to come out of their houses and snatch their rights from the government over the arrest of journalist Imran Riaz Khan.
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Bihar: Tuition teacher arrested for thrashing 6-year-old student
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Patna (Bihar) [India], July 7 (ANI): A tuition teacher in Bihar has been arrested by local police for brutally thrashing a six-year-old student after he witnessed his teacher making lewd comments to a female student.
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Ankit Shaw joins National Human Rights Organisation as State Chief - Youth
Updated : 4 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 7 (ANI/GPRC): Anchoring an event is one of the most challenging tasks one can do. While it's a must to have excellent communication skills, you need to have good personality, enough charm, wit and presence of mind that you never lose the attention of the audience. And
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Taliban execute, 'disappear' alleged militants in Afghanistan: Human Right
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New York [US], July 7 (ANI): With one investigation revealing that over 100 bodies had been dumped in an emptied canal in Nangarhar, Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch (HRW), said Taliban security forces are carrying out abusive search operations where they execute and forcibly disappear reside
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Not a single family in Balochistan whose member, relative not forcibly dis
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Islamabad [Pakistan], July 7 (ANI): With a spike in the number of enforced disappearances in Balochistan in the past few months, there is not even a single family in the province whose member or a relative has not been forcibly disappeared, reported a Canada-based think tank, International F
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Uzbek govt rejects reports of illegal use of force at 'peaceful rally' in
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Tashkent [Uzbekistan], July 7 (ANI): The Uzbekistan Foreign Ministry has rejected media reports and claims by human rights groups which stated that illegal use of force was employed for the dispersal of a "peaceful rally" in the city of Nukus in Karakalpakstan.
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Journalism is not a crime: Rights group slams Pakistan's crackdown on scri
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Islamabad [Pakistan], July 7 (ANI): A prominent rights group has slammed the Pakistani government for the arrest of journalist Imran Riaz Khan and urged authorities to stop punishing dissenting voices.
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