Tag: Amnesty

ISTANBUL With close cultural and historical ties, Pakistan and Turkey have great potential for cooperation in a host of areas, according to Pakistan’s president.Arif Alvi was in the Turkish metropolis Istanbul as the first corvette ship built in Turkey for Pakistan’s Navy, named the PNS Babur, was launched in ...

The Moroccan government on Thursday filed a defamation suit against human rights body Amnesty International and French media non-profit Forbidden Stories in relation to the alleged surveillance using the Pegasus spyware, AFP reported. This appears to be the first lawsuit filed in the matter by the government of a ...

Non-governmental organisation Amnesty International on Thursday said that it categorically stood by the findings of the Pegasus Project, a global investigation about the alleged misuse of a spyware developed by Israeli firm NSO group. The organisation issued the statement in response to “false allegations on social media and inaccurate ...

NEW DELHI: Congress member Rahul Gandhi, former election commissioner Ashok Lavasa, recently-appointed railways, communications and IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and junior Jal Shakti minister Prahlad Patel, along with poll strategist Prashant Kishor and Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee were allegedly targeted for surveillance by Pegasus spyware, web portal The ...

Many governments "weaponized" the coronavirus pandemic during the last year to further repress citizens' rights, global rights group Amnesty International said in itsannual report, released Wednesday. The report also says the virus disproportionately hit ethnic minorities, refugees and women. "At the global level, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed and exacerbated inequalities," Philip Luther, ...

ANKARAGlobal rights watchdog Amnesty International has called on India to “immediately halt its intensifying suppression of dissent” after the country’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) raided several organizations in Jammu and Kashmir. Amnesty, which shut its office in India last month following a "witch hunt" by the government, said on ...

Do you recall the pride with which Narendra Modi used to refer to India as the world’s largest democracy? He said it frequently in his early years as prime minister. No one could refute the adjective. It’s indisputably correct. The noun, however, can be questioned. India holds regular elections ...

As of today, Amnesty International will no longer be able to work inside India. Following years of official threats, intimidation and harassment, Amnesty India’s accounts have been frozen without any official notice. The human rights research and campaigning our colleagues were carrying out has come to a sudden halt. ...

A group of 15 international organisations has condemned the Centre’s move to freeze the funds of human rights body Amnesty International India, forcing it to halt its work. In a statement released on Wednesday, the Amnesty India said that the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government’s actions “mimic that of ...

Why does the Indian government have such a thin skin? What is going on in Kashmir imo is wrong but India isn’t the only country being called out for human rights violations.In fact Kashmir barely gets mentioned at all in the west. It’s totally drowned out by Xinjiang, wars ...