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Female Pakistani lawyer tortured for giving speech against Army
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Aug 30 (ANI): A Pakistani female advocate, who recently delivered a speech critical of the country's armed forces, was abducted and tortured for days, before she was found by locals in a very bad condition in Mailsi of Punjab province earlier this month.
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DCW rescues woman who was chained, beaten by husband
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 25 (ANI): The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) on Tuesday rescued a 32-year-old woman who was chained and tortured at her home by her husband in Trilokpuri area of Delhi.
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China involved in mass rapes, abortions of Uyghur women, alleges activist
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 11 (ANI): A renowned Uyghur American activist and advocate from Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China has alleged that Uyghur women have been facing genocide in the hands of Chinese as they are being raped, tortured and brainwashed.
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Women in PoK's Neelum valley protest against police inaction
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Neelum, [PoK] July 18 (ANI): A large number of residents in Neelum district of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) blocked the road and held a protest against inaction by police and the government after brutal torture of local women.
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Chhattisgarh: Family in Mahasamund suffers social boycott, threatens suici
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Mahasamund (Chhattisgarh) [India], July 15 (ANI): Suffering from social boycott for a year due to a local goon's alleged torture, a family of four in Mahasamund's Charoda village in Chhattisgarh recounted their agony while speaking to ANI on Wednesday. The social ostracism has been such that
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Two arrested for torture, sexual abuse of children at Gaudiya math in Muza
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Muzaffarnagar (Uttar Pradesh) [India], July 11 (ANI): The Uttar Pradesh police have arrested two persons in connection with the complaint of torture and sexual exploitation of children at Gaudiya Math in Muzaffarnagar.
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China to finally be tried at International Criminal Court for torturing Uy
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
The Hague [Netherlands], July 10 (ANI): After years of getting tortured for their identity, the Uighurs have finally approached the International Criminal Court (ICC) seeking justice.
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Tuticorin custodial death: CBI registers two cases, forms probeteam
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 8 (ANI): Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday has registered two cases in the deaths a father-son duo, who allegedly tortured in police custody in Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin.
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Plea in SC seeks Centre to form independent panel to review legal framewor
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 8 (ANI): A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court urging it to lay guidelines to fill the legal lacunae surrounding custodial deaths, tortures and rapes.
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Five accused in Tuticorin custodial death case transferred to Madurai Cent
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Thoothukudi (Tamil Nadu) [India], July 4 (ANI): Five accused in case of alleged custodial torture leading to deaths of a father-son duo here were transferred from Tuticorin jail to Madurai Central Jail on Saturday.
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Two journalists tortured in Pakistan for covering quarantine centre in Ba
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Balochistan [Pakistan], July 3 (ANI): Two Pakistan TV reporters were recently tortured for three days by the paramilitary force for covering a quarantine centre located in southwestern Balochistan province, reported Reporters Without Borders (RWF/RSF) while condemning the incident and callin
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Thoothukudi custodial death: TN govt hands over Rs 20 lakh as compensation
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], June 27 (ANI): The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) in Tamil Nadu has announced an additional Rs 25 lakh to be given to the family of P Jayaraj and his son J Benicks, who died of alleged custodial torture in Thoothukudi district.
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