Wed 15 June 2022: Dozens of countries have voiced concern about alleged abuses in China’s far western Xinjiang region, and demanded that the United Nations rights chief publish a long-delayed report on the situation there. “We continue to be gravely concerned about the human rights situation in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region,” Paul Bekkers, the Dutch ambassador to […]
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Muslim Student leader and Fraternity Movement national secretary Aysha Renna sustained injuries during lathicharge in Kerala’s Malappuram. She was leading a protest against the demolition of Muslim activist Afreen Fatima’s house in UP. Wed 15 June 2022: India must immediately end a “vicious” crackdown on Muslims who took to the streets to protest a ruling party official’s remarks […]
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Tue 14 June 2022: As per a report in the South China Morning Post, new liberal studies textbooks in Chinese secondary schools state that Hong Kong was never a British colony. The texts have been updated to reflect the new curriculum. According to textbooks, the logic behind such an assumption is that China does not […]
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Tue 14 June 2022: Representatives of the Rohingya genocide victims in Myanmar were set to write a Letter Before Action against against Facebook, the social media giant now known as Meta, over its role in enabling the genocide, a report said on Monday. The Letter comes in advance of an anticipated claim seeking damages from […]
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Mon 13 June 2022: Given the current diplomatic tensions between India and the Gulf countries, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit UAE while returning from the G7 summit. It is to be noted that at least 16 Muslim majority countries had registered their protest against derogatory remarks on Prophet Muhammad by former Bhartiya […]
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Mon 13 June 2022: New Delhi, India – A young Muslim activist whose house was bulldozed by the authorities in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh says it was an “act of vendetta” by the government for the protests over comments made against Prophet Muhammad by officials of the country’s right-wing governing party. Surrounded by a large […]
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Mon 13 June 2022: Michelle Bachelet, the UN’s human rights commissioner, said on Monday that she would not seek a second term in a wide-ranging speech to the Geneva-based Human Rights Council. Bachelet’s journey to China last month drew criticism from rights groups as well as certain Western governments, including the United States, which claimed […]
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Sun 12 June 2022: Sonia Gandhi, president of India’s main opposition Congress party, has been admitted to hospital with “Covid-related issues,” a party spokesman said Sunday. Gandhi was admitted to the Ganga Ram Hospital in the capital New Delhi, Congress general secretary Randeep Surjewala said in a tweet. “She is stable and will be kept […]
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Sun 12 June 2022: China’s defense minister promised Sunday that the country will “fight to the end” to prevent Taiwanese independence, escalating already high tensions with the US over the island. The superpowers are involved in a verbal battle over the self-governing, democratic island, which Beijing sees as part of its territory that needs to […]
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Sat 10 June 2022: Police in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur shared videos of municipal teams out with bulldozers under a heavy police presence demolishing parts of the homes of two of the accused arrested for allegedly disturbing the peace and social harmony, a day after violence over recent remarks by now-suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma on […]
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