Tag: Defenders

Source link www.rferl.org Welcome to The Azadi Briefing, an RFE/RL newsletter that unpacks the key issues in Afghanistan. To subscribe, click here. I'm Abubakar Siddique, a senior correspondent at RFE/RL's Radio Azadi. Here's what I've been tracking and what I'm keeping an eye on in the days ahead. The ...

NEW DELHI: In a stunning display of power hitting, Afghanistan batter Sediqullah Atal left the cricket world astonished during the Kabul Premier League. Leading his team, Shaheen Hunters, Atal unleashed an onslaught on left-arm spinner Amir Zazai, smashing seven sixes in a single over, which also included a no-ball.The ...

Bharatiya Janata Party’s IT department head Amit Malviya’s tweet was on similar lines as Agnihotri. “For the longest time, people even denied the Holocaust and called Schindler’s List a propaganda, just like some are doing to Kashmir Files. Truth eventually triumphs, no matter what,” he wrote. But many Twitter users ...

Popular health-focused outlet DXY is the latest popular science outlet to run afoul of China’s censors and online nationalists. Five DXY Weibo accounts, with a combined total of more than 30 million followers, were simultaneously suspended for unstated reasons earlier this week. There is widespread speculation that DXY’s suspension ...

The federal government announced on Tuesday the arrival of more than 250 Afghan refugees. The refugees — most of whom are described as human rights defenders by the federal government — are the latest to arrive in Canada since the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban last year. A charter ...

JAKARTA — Reprisals against human rights defenders were in the spotlight on Wednesday as UN independent experts documented instances of abuse in Indonesia and Pakistan. Special Rapporteur Mary Lawlor said Indonesia must immediately stop threatening and intimidating human rights defender Veronica Koman and her family.Living in self-imposed exile in Australia, ...

Special Rapporteur Mary Lawlor said Indonesia must immediately stop threatening and intimidating human rights defender Veronica Koman and her family.  Living in self-imposed exile in Australia, Ms. Koman, a lawyer specializing in human and minority rights, faces charges of incitement, displaying race-based hatred, spreading fake news and disseminating information aimed at inflicting ethnic-hatred.  The allegations were believed to have been brought against her in retaliation for providing reports ...

SRINAGAR, Jammu and KashmirKashmiri pro-freedom leader Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai’s “preventive” detention since July 2020 highlights the bleak plight of Kashmiri political prisoners, according to rights activists and experts.Sehrai, 77, can hear only with the help of hearing aids. He was diagnosed with 70% hearing loss in his right ear ...

GENEVA UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet appealed to India on Tuesday to safeguard human rights defenders and NGOs, saying three laws stifle their work, among them one that discriminates against religious minorities including Muslims, who are the country's second-largest religious group. "She has expressed regret at the tightening of space ...

GENEVA UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet appealed to India on Tuesday to safeguard human rights defenders and NGOs, saying three laws stifle their work, among them one that discriminates against religious minorities including Muslims, who are the country's second-largest religious group. "She has expressed regret at the tightening of space ...