Fri 21 January 2022: Tesla’s growth in Xinjiang, where the Chinese government is reported to have opened detention camps for Uyghurs, has been criticized by US politicians. The heads of two House of Representatives Ways and Means subcommittees wrote to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, saying the action was “misguided” and set a “poor example” since […]
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Women wait for free bread in front of a bakery in Kabul. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Fri 21 January 2022: The Turkish President announced on Wednesday that the country would be sending a “charity train” to Afghanistan carrying emergency goods, Anadolu News Agency reports. Speaking after a Cabinet meeting in the capital, Ankara, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the train, carrying […]
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Fri 21 January 2022: The request by a London-based law firm was made to the British police under the principle of ‘universal jurisdiction’ allowing the prosecution of individuals accused of crimes against humanity committed anywhere in the world. A London-based law firm has filed an application with British police seeking the arrest of India’s army […]
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Thu 20 January 2022: Facebook opponents are urging the company to share the results of a human rights impact assessment it commissioned in 2020 to look into hate speech on its platforms in India. The social network firm, now known as Meta, is under increased criticism for its management of abuses on its services, particularly […]
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Thu 20 January 2022: Mullah Hassan Akhund, Afghanistan’s acting prime minister, called for world nations to recognize the country’s Taliban administration on Wednesday, saying at a news conference in Kabul that all conditions had been met. “I ask all governments, especially Islamic countries, that they should start recognition,” Akhund said, in his first major public […]
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Wed 19 January 2022: A genocide of Muslims in India could be about to take place, an expert said to have predicted the massacre of the Tutsi in Rwanda years before it took place in 1994, has warned. Gregory Stanton, the founder and director of Genocide Watch, said during a US congressional briefing there were […]
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Wed 19 January 2022: After a new cluster of COVID-19 cases was traced to a pet shop, Hong Kong ordered the cull of 2,000 hamsters on Tuesday and warned pet owners not to kiss animals. The human Delta variant outbreak linked to the shop worker prompted tests on hundreds of animals, with 11 hamsters testing […]
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Wed 19 January 2022: In a recent Texas hostage-taking incident, the perpetrator demanded US officials release Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani woman imprisoned for alleged connections with Al Qaeda. Imprisoned Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui’s name reemerged in last weekend’s Texas hostage-taking incident, in which Malik Faisal Akram, a 44-year-old British citizen, took hostages in a synagogue, demanding Siddiqui’s […]
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The photo of the girls sitting on the stairs of the college that went viral on social media. Tue 18 January 2022: Bengaluru, India – When A H Almas, 18, and two of her friends stepped into their classroom on a December morning, the teacher immediately yelled at them: “Get out.” The Muslim girls were not […]
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Tue 18 January 2022: As a result of an earthquake that struck western Afghanistan on Monday, at least 26 people were killed, four more were critically injured, and hundreds of homes were demolished or damaged, according to local officials. On Monday, the western province of Badghis was jolted by a 5.6 magnitude earthquake. According to […]
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