Fri 26 February 2021: Sri Lanka finally lifted the controversial ban on the burial of bodies of people whose deaths were caused by the COVID-19, a health ministry spokesman said. PM Imran thanked the Sri Lankan government for taking this step and respecting the sentiments of the Muslim minority in Sri Lanka The ban was […]
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Fri 26 February 2021: India has announced new rules to regulate content on social media, making Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter and others more accountable to legal requests for the swift removal of posts and sharing information on where the messages originated from. The rules – part of an effort by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to […]
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Fri 26 February 2021: The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) on Thursday decided to keep Pakistan on its ‘grey list’, with the country’s status set to be reviewed next at an extraordinary plenary session in June 2021. The announcement was made by FATF President Dr Marcus Pleyer at a press briefing from Paris on the outcomes of […]
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Thu 25 February 2021: Facebook on Thursday announced that it was banning Myanmar military junta from its Facebook and Instagram platforms. The decision has come as there is no let-up in anti-coup protests and military’s brutal crackdown against the protesters. Myanmar military removed civilian government headed by Aung San Suu Kyi in a coup on February […]
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Thu 25 February 2021: Holocaust survivors have urged the U.K. to denounce the Uyghur “genocide” by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Survivors Ruth Barnett and Dorit Oliver Wolff sent a letter Tuesday to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, inviting him to a meeting to discuss China’s treatment of […]
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Wed 24 February 2021: A top Sri Lankan minister has made a fervent appeal to the member states of the UNHRC to reject the impending resolution on the island nation’s human rights accountability and reconciliation, terming it a “pure political move” against the country. Addressing a UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) session virtually on Tuesday, […]
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Tue 23 February 2021: Disha Ravi, the 22-year-old climate change activist charged with sedition after being arrested February 13 in connection with a “toolkit” relating to the farmers’ protest, walked out of Delhi’s Tihar Jail late Tuesday night, hours after she was granted bail. Judge Rana, who posed several searching questions during last week’s bail […]
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Tue 23 February 2021: Members of the G7 and the EU “firmly” condemned violence by Myanmar’s security forces against peaceful protests following the seizure of power by that country’s military. “The military and the police must exercise utmost restraint and respect human rights and international law,” G7 foreign ministers and EU foreign policy chief Josep […]
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Tue 23 February 2021: Climate activist Disha Ravi reached the office of the Delhi Police Cyber Cell today in connection with the probe into the “toolkit Google doc” backing the ongoing farmers’ agitation, officials said. A Delhi court on Monday sent Ms Ravi to one-day police custody as it said she has to be confronted […]
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Tue 23 February 2021: A disabled boat carrying ethnic Rohingya Muslim, some dying from lack of food and water, is believed to drifting in the Andaman Sea, the United Nations’ refugee agency said Monday while appealing to Southeast Asian governments to rescue them. The vessel departed from Cox’s Bazar and Teknaf in Bangladesh 10 days ago and […]
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