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Pak Army has licence to kill us, rape us, still UN is silent: Baloch activ
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec.11 (ANI): Accusing the Pakistan Army of having the licence to "kill, rape and torture Baloch people and to take out their organs to sell them", Baloch Kurd liberation activist and World Baloch Women's Forum president Naela Quadri Baloch has demanded that
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B'desh bowler Shahadat acquitted in maid torture case
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Nov.7 (ANI):A Dhaka court has acquitted Bangladesh all-rounder Shahadat Hossain and his wife on charges of physically torturing their 11-year-old maid.
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Engineering student in K'taka commits suicide, alleges torture by fri
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Bidar (Karnataka) [India], Nov. 6 (ANI): An engineering student in Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College in Karnataka's Bidar on Sunday allegedly committed suicide.
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Australian couple imprisoned for raping, torturing daughter for 14 years
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
London [UK], Oct. 28 (ANI): A father who raped, mutilated and tortured his young daughter over a 14-year period has been sentenced by a Sydney court to at least 36 years in jail, while the mother has been sentenced to a minimum of 11 years for her role in the couple's physical and psych
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PPP to join PTI's Islamabad 'lockdown' if Govt tortures pol
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Oct.24 (ANI): Pakistan Peoples Party leader Aitzaz Ahsan on Monday said that the party will review its decision to stay away from the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf's November 2 'lockdown' of Islamabad if the government resorted to 'torture' of politi
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NHRC notice to CBI on allegations of torture behind suicide of B.K. Bansal
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept. 29 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) notice to the director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on the reported allegations of torture behind the suicide of suspended Corporate Affairs Director-General B.K. Bansal and his family.
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CBI to probe into 'torture charges' in Bansal's suicide not
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept. 28 (ANI): The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday stated that based on the alleged suicide note of former bureaucrat B.K. Bansal and his son where certain CBI officials have been accused of torturing his family, a probe will be carried out against said
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Mother of three killed for honour in Pak Punjab
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Sept. 16 (ANI): Police in Pakistan's Punjab province have arrested the father, husband and brother of a woman who was tortured and hanged alongside her alleged boyfriend in a family courtyard.
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Pak Army repeating horrors of 1971 by targeting Baloch women
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Sept. 10 (ANI): Asserting that history was repeating in itself, Farzana Majeed Baluch, a Baloch human rights activist, has said that human rights violations committed by Pakistan in Balochistan and the army targeting Baloch women was as bad as the torture and rape of w
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NHRC issues notice to TN govt. over reports of illegal detention of 17-yea
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, Aug 23 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Tuesday issued a notice to Tamil Nadu government over report of illegal detention and torture of a juvenile of Kurava community by the state police.
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Asian Human Rights Commission accuses Pakistan of police excesses in Gilgi
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Hong Kong, Aug.11 (ANI): The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has accused Pakistan of encouraging police excesses and torture in the Gilgit-Baltistan region and called on the state to immediately ensure accountability and put in place a mechanism of checks and balances to prevent such in
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No information yet on whereabouts of Father Tom: MEA
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, July 30 (ANI): The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has admitted that they have not been able to procure any information yet on the whereabouts of Father Tom, who went missing in Yemen and a purported video of him being tortured by the ISIS cropped up on social media.
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