– Amnesty International says surveillance to erode rights to privacy and freedom of expression ISLAMABAD (AA) – The Afghan Taliban on Friday rejected Amnesty International’s concerns over the installation of cameras in the capital Kabul and other areas, saying these cameras are installed to maintain security. In a statement, Afghanistan’...
An estimated 900,000 to 1.8 million Uyghurs and other Muslim groups have been detained in high security camps GENEVA, Switzerland – A U.N. group has found more evidence of forced disappearances of Uighurs in China’s Xinjiang autonomous region. The U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) has said that China has intensified ...
Group asked U.S. to secure the release of Ahmed Mansoor and other detained human rights activists from UAE prisons WASHINGTON – A coalition of 19 human rights groups has called on the U.S. to pressure the United Arab Emirates to release human rights activists ahead of the U.N. Climate Change Summit or COP28 scheduled for […]
Traffickers mostly locals groom potential victims and connect them to larger trafficking networks DHAKA, Bangladesh – Rohingya refugees housed in camps in Bangladesh and Myanmar’s Rakhine State are vulnerable to human trafficking because of their desperate situation. Discrimination, lack of opportunities, and poor living conditions make ...
More than 5,000 Palestinians arrested by Israeli forces this year, according to local NGO RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli army forces rounded up 32 Palestinians in military raids in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, according to a local NGO. In a statement, the Palestinian Prisoner Society said the arrests took place in the cities [&...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Ground penetrating radar has unearthed 79 potential children’s graves and those that may be of 14 infants at the former Beauval Indian Residential School in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, English River First Nation said Tuesday. “This is not a final number. It breaks my heart that there are likely mor...
– Committee to Protect Journalists urges release of Aasif Sultan, imprisoned 5 years ago under anti-terror law SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) — An international media watchdog on Sunday called on Indian government to release Kashmiri journalist Aasif Sultan, who has been imprisoned for five years. “Sunday marks five years of the ...
Goldberg said more and more people around the world, including in Israel, are recognizing the reality and acknowledging it TEL AVIV, Israel – Holocaust historian Amos Goldberg has declared that calling Israel’s treatment of Palestinians apartheid is not anti-Semitic. In a guest editorial in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ),...
Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh – – AFP Thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees rallied at camps in Bangladesh on Friday to demand their safe return to Myanmar on the sixth anniversary of the violence that drove them from their homes. Bangladesh is home to around a million members of the stateless minority, most of whom fled the [&hell...
Her son had criticized trial of an opposition politician belonging to the Jamaat e Islami by the controversial International Crimes Tribunal DHAKA, Bangladesh – A 58-year-old woman, Anisha Siddika, was arrested in Bangladesh following a Facebook post by her son. According to Amnesty International, Siddika was taken into custody on Augus...
