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UN panel raises questions over military courts in Pakistan
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], April. 19 (ANI): The United Nations Committee Against Torture (CAT) has raised questions over "continued enforced disappearances" and "torture of prisoners in detention" in Pakistan.
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Mamata Govt. slapping false cases on BJP: Rijiju
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr. 10 (ANI): After his assertion that the Mamata Banerjee government was misusing power to 'torture' political opponents, Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju on Monday said that the state police was acting under the pressure of politicians as evident by the
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Syrian defector urges Trump to stop machinery of death
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [U.S.], Mar. 22 (ANI): The Syrian defector who smuggled out tens of thousands of photos of people allegedly tortured to death in Assad regime jails has urged U.S. President Donald Trump to stop the machinery of death.
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Strike in Quetta against arrest, torture of Pakhtuns
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Quetta [Pakistan], Mar. 11 (ANI): A strike was observed in Quetta against the arrest and torture of Pakhtuns in various cities of Punjab and in Karachi.
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I was tortured beyond limits: Pakistani blogger Ahmad Waqass Goraya
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva[Switzerland], Mar. 10 (ANI): Pakistani blogger and human rights defender Ahmad Waqass Goraya, who disappeared from Lahore in January this year, said he was brutally tortured before his release after almost a month in captivity.
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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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Two transgender Pakistanis tortured to death by Saudi police
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], Mar. 2 (ANI): Two transgender Pakistanis, both natives of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), died on Tuesday after being subjected to torture allegedly by Saudi police in Riyadh for cross-dressing in public.
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Sindh says big no to CPEC, torture through JSMM-led strike
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Karachi (Sindh) [Pakistan], Feb.20 (ANI): Leaders and activists of the Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSSM) have claimed success for their province-wide strike against the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects and state-sponsored torture of secular Sindhi nationalist activists.
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Uma Bharti says as MP CM she made rapists beg for forgiveness
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Agra, (Uttar Pradesh) [India] Feb. 10 (ANI): Union Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Uma Bharti claimed on Friday that during her stint as chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, she had got rapists tortured in police stations and made them beg for forgiveness.
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EU demands China to release political prisoners
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Hong Kong, Jan. 29 (ANI): The European Union (EU) has demanded China to investigate a harrowing account of torture by a detained lawyer and release several political prisoners.
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Trump administration calls for review on use of CIA 'black site'
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington(D.C.)[US], Jan. 26(ANI): An executive order drafted by the Donald Trump administration called for a policy review that could authorize the CIA to reopen "black site" prisons overseas and potentially restart an interrogation program that was dismantled in 2009 after using
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MP Liton killed for protesting Jamaat torture: Sheikh Hasina
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Jan. 4 (ANI): Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said Awami League lawmaker from Gaibandha-1 constituency, Manzurul Islam Liton was killed for protesting against Jamaat torture and oppression on the people in his area.
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