Tag: Amnesty International

Amnesty International, in collaboration with a coalition of human rights activists and civil society organizations, has urgently called upon the Pakistani government to promptly restore social media platform “X,” which has been blocked in the country since February 17, as reported by The Express Tribune.Formerly known as Twitter, “X” ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Over two dozen domestic and international human rights organizations have urged Pakistan to restore X after the South Asian country banned the social media platform 29 days ago.In a joint statement issued late on Friday, 28 rights groups, including Amnesty International, expressed "profound concern" over increasingly frequent Internet ...

ISLAMABAD —  Afghanistan’s Taliban Monday carried out another public execution of a man charged with murder, defying international calls to stop the “inhuman” punishments. It was the third public execution within a week. The Taliban Supreme Court said in an announcement that the execution had taken place in a ...

ATHENSAmnesty International demanded on Friday an urgent independent investigation into the drowning of at least 78 irregular migrants after their boat capsized off the coast of southwestern Greece earlier this week.“So many questions demand answers. Why was a search and rescue operation not launched much sooner? What caused the ...

KARACHI, PakistanAmnesty International has called for a global intervention to tackle Pakistan's lurking "climate crisis", which has wreaked havoc on people’s lives and right to health and livelihoods in recent years.In its report titled “A Burning Emergency: Extreme Heat and the Right to Health in Pakistan” released on Monday ...

ISTANBULThe Pakistani government is mulling a ban on former Prime Minister Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), or Movement of Justice party, the country’s defense minister said Wednesday.Khawaja Asif told reporters in the capital Islamabad: “A decision has not been taken yet, but a review is surely underway,” according to ...

ISTANBUL Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said he was ready to talk to "anyone in power" amid a crackdown on his party since his controversial arrest and the violence that followed.More than two dozen leaders from Khan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), including Shireen Mazari and Fawad Chaudhry, have quit ...

#Pakistan News Amnesty International sounded alarm Tuesday after a latest report found that executions worldwide increased by 53% in 2022 from a year earlier. The global human rights body singled out Iran and Saudi Arabia for a significant rise in executions and also criticized Indonesia for having one of ...

islamabad —  Human rights defenders have sharply criticized Pakistan for announcing plans to use military laws to prosecute those responsible for arson during recent protests sparked by the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan. In a statement on Tuesday, Amnesty International described the controversial move as alarming and ...

NEW DELHIFormer Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti was detained on Wednesday in the capital New Delhi for protesting against the Jammu and Kashmir administration’s anti-encroachment drive in the valley.At the protest site, Mufti said: “Jammu and Kashmir has been turned into Afghanistan by the Bharatiya Janata ...