Fri 02 September 2022: A prominent pro-Taliban scholar and more than a dozen civilians were killed in an explosion in a mosque in the western Afghan city of Herat. On Friday, pictures shared on social media appeared to show blood-stained victims lying around the mosque complex. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. “Eighteen people […]
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Fri 02 September 2022: Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s deposed leader, was given a three-year prison term for election fraud by a military junta court, local media reported on Friday. According to Khit Thit Media, the War on Terrorism Council found her guilty of alleged electoral fraud. A junta court gave the former State Counsellor […]
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Fri 02 September 2022: Members of the Uighur diaspora are urging the world to act after the United Nations said China may have committed crimes against humanity in the far-western region of Xinjiang. The long-awaited report (PDF) by the outgoing UN Human Rights Commissioner, Michelle Bachelet, was published late on Wednesday, just minutes before the end of […]
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Thu 01 September 2022: The United States on Thursday welcomed a report by the United Nations that said China may have committed crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said. “This report deepens and reaffirms our grave concern regarding the ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity that PRC government authorities are perpetrating against Uyghurs,” Blinken said in a statement while calling for Beijing to be […]
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Thu 01 September 2022: Shabana Azmi today broke down as she expressed her shame and horror at the Bilkis Bano case convicts being freed by the Gujarat government last month, 15 years after they were jailed. The acclaimed actor said she was stunned at the sheer injustice of it and the silence of the society […]
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Hundreds of Afghan refugees and migrants held a protest in the UAE where they have been living in limbo since they were evacuated from Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover in August 2021 [@firozyazdani/Twitter] Thu 01 September 2022: Afghan refugees, who escape from their chaotic and war-torn country, are pushed back by Iranian and Turkish authorities at […]
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Thu 01 September 2022: Raising serious concerns about the way activist Teesta Setalvad has been kept in custody in Gujarat for more than two months, the Supreme Court today questioned how the Gujarat High Court issued notice asking for a reply after six weeks. A bench led by Chief Justice of India UU Lalit also […]
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Thu 01 September 2022: In a terrorism investigation, a Pakistani court granted former Prime Minister Imran Khan pre-arrest bail on Thursday, Anadolu Agency reported. Khan came before an anti-terrorism court in Islamabad, where he was granted interim bail under four new terms added by local police to a case filed against him last month. According […]
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Thu 01 September 2022: A court in Kuala Lumpur finds Rosmah Mansor guilty of seeking and receiving bribes in connection to a multi-million dollar solar power project. A court in Kuala Lumpur has found Rosmah Mansor, the wife of former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, guilty of seeking and receiving bribes in exchange for a […]
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Thu 01 September 2022: Long-delayed report from UN human rights office says abuses against mostly Muslim Uighurs stem from ‘anti-terrorism law systems’. China’s detention of Uighurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic minorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang may amount to “crimes against humanity”, the United Nations human rights office said in a long-delayed report […]
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