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UNHRC special rapporteur to investigate human rights violations in Afghani
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 17 (ANI): The newly appointed United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) special rapporteur on Afghanistan said on Sunday that he will closely examine allegations of torture, disappearances, killings of former government employees and detentions under the Taliban
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Delhi HC seeks status report on vigilance inquiry in police atrocity resul
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 14 (ANI): The Delhi High Court recently sought a status report on the steps taken by the Delhi Police on the vigilance report against three of its personnel in a matter of alleged illegal detention and custodial torture resulting in spinal injury to the victim.
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Pakistan: Police refuses to file FIR in kidnapping incident
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 23 (ANI): Succumbing to the pressure of a local Member of Provincial Assembly (MPA) in Pakistan's Punjab province, Lodharan District Police Officer (DPO) refused to register an FIR of a kidnapping, torture and vehicle snatching incident.
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Pakistan: Wedding guests torture vendor to death, continue festivities nea
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Pattoki [Pakistan], March 23 (ANI): In a shocking incident, a vendor who was selling crackers at a wedding hall was brutally tortured to death by the guests in Pattoki city (Kasur District) in Pakistan's Punjab province.
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Woman in MP tortured for delivering girl child, 5 including husband held
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Dewas (Madhya Pradesh) [India], March 21 (ANI): A woman in Dewas district here was tortured allegedly with a hot rod by her husband and in-laws for giving birth to a girl child, police said on Monday.
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Pakistan court seeks report on police brutality against Baloch protesters
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 9 (ANI): The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday sought a report regarding police torture against Baloch students protesting in front of the country's National Press Club in Islamabad.
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Pakistan: Police team attacked, tortured during raid at Karachi hotel
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], February 24 (ANI): A police team was attacked and tortured by a group of men during a raid at a local hotel in the Model Colony area of Pakistan's Karachi on Wednesday.
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Health of three monks in critical condition after six years of torture in
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Sichuan [China], February 23 (ANI): Three senior monks from Drago Monastery in Karze prefecture in western China's Sichuan province are in critical health condition after their release from prison four years ago, said a media report.
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'Was tortured by Taliban in Khost province', says brother of former police
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], February 22 (ANI): A brother of a police commander in the former government led by Ashraf Ghani, claimed that he was detained and tortured by the Taliban in Khost province.
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Sri Lankan govt misusing Prevention of Terrorism Act against Tamil, Muslim
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], February 8 (ANI): The Sri Lankan government is using the discredited Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) to commit prolonged arbitrary detention and torture, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released on Monday.
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Abducted Arunachal boy tortured with electric shocks: India takes up the m
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 3 (ANI): India has taken up the matter of "torture" committed by the People's Liberation Army on the Arunachal Pradesh boy Miram Taron who was abducted by PLA and was released after over a week.
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Time to boycott China by divesting companies complicit in Uyghur genocide,
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 24 (ANI): An estimated one million Uyghurs are in concentration camps, treated as little more than chattel, and enslaved. Both men and women endure systematic physical and sexual abuse, including rape and torture. Young men remain absent from the streets of Urumqi, a
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