Tag: threatened

When women in Pakistan ride a motorbike, form a cycling group or drink tea at a roadside stall, they make it to the news: it’s rare to see them doing ordinary things in public spaces. But this changes once a year, on International Women’s Day, when women mass together ...

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 71%. (I'm a bot)Campaigners are urging Boris Johnson to offer asylum to a 14-year-old Christian girl being hunted by Islamist death squads in Pakistan after fleeing her forced marriage to a Muslim man 30 years her senior.The schoolgirl ...

Christian girl, 14, is being threatened by Islamist death squads in Pakistan for fleeing forced marriage to Muslim man, 45 - as thousands sign petition to give her asylumCatholic altar server Maira Shahbaz is hiding after being accused of apostasy  Over 9,000 have signed petition asking PM to grant her ...

#Pakistan News Twin baby boys lay on a bed of woven palm leaves in a remote camp for displaced people in Yemen’s north, their collar bones and ribs visible. They cried loudly, twisting as if in pain, not from disease but from the hunger gnawing away at them. Here, ...

#Pakistan News On the Hindu festival of Durga Puja, Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina termed "communal harmony" as one of the biggest achievements of her decade long rule, but reality on the ground is complex. Lawyer and activist, Rana Dasgupta, is no stranger to death threats, persecution and a ...

The Dubai Criminal Court has ruled a three-month prison sentence and deportation of an Asian (rent collector) on the charge of threatening a man with death through the latter's wife, due to his delay in paying the rent. The victim said in the prosecution's investigations that the accused came ...

Kolkata: BJP leader Anupam Hazra, who hadthreatened to hug West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjeeif he got infected with COVID-19, has tested positive for thedisease, health officials said.Hazra, who has recently been appointed as a nationalsecretary of the saffron party, was admitted to a privatehospital in Kolkata on Friday, ...

Sometime in August, I was assigned a story by the editor of Article 14. I accepted and in the course of my research, I found that some active Twitter users, who often posted tweets about contentious issues in Kashmir, had gone quiet.The facts were not new. The Kashmir Walla, ...

Heavy seasonal rains wreaked havoc along the Yangtze river and across China, according to reports on Wednesday. Some 100,000 people have been evacuated from the cities of Leshan and Ya'an, in worst-hit Sichuan province, as water levels rose and concerns grew over safety. Flood waters also threatened UNESCO world ...