Srinagar, Dec 31 (ANI): The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Thursday foiled a sit-in protest by a separatist group against the human rights violations in Srinagar.
The protest was organised by separatist Jammu Kashmir salvation movement.
Activists along with their chairman Zaffar Akbar Bhat were staging [...]
Beijing, Dec. 25 (ANI): China’s leading dissident, Liu Xiaobo, was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Friday after a court found the 53-year-old literary scholar guilty of “inciting subversion to state power” through his writings and role in Charter 08, a petition advocating human rights, free speech and an end to one-party rule.
The sentencing [...]
Srinagar, Dec 17 (ANI) : Kin of missing persons staged a sit-in protest under the banner of the Joint association of Kashmir affected families (JAKAF) here on Thursday to demand information on the whereabouts of those missing.
“The families that are protesting here are those which have been [...]
London, Nov. 20 (ANI): Britain was aware about the CIA’s barbaric torture techniques on terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, a former Gitmo detainee has claimed.
Secret reports exchanged between MI5 and the CIA in 2002 clearly state that the American security services were using torture practices, which included waterboarding, facial slaps and stress positions.
The extent of [...]
London, Oct 13 (IANS) Indian MPs currently on a visit to Sri Lanka should raise concerns about the ’safety and dignity’ of the hundreds of thousands of Tamils who have been displaced by civil war, Amnesty International said.
The refugees, who have been sheltered in 21 government-run closed camps in the north and east of the [...]
London, Sep.30 (ANI): A report launched today by human rights group Survival International shows that tribal peoples across the world are at greatest risk from swine flu, as many have poor immunity and suffer chronic underlying illnesses.
The report, swine flu and tribal peoples, shows that [...]
Jerusalem/London, Sep.30 (ANI): A British court has rejected a petition urging an arrest warrant for Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak on the grounds that he committed “war crimes” during the IDF offensive in the Gaza Strip earlier this year.
The rejection came after a tense day that included intensive consultations between the foreign ministries in [...]
Baghdad, Sep. 15 (ANI): The family of an Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at former US President George Bush has claimed that he was brutally tortured and repeatedly injected with “unknown substances” while in jail.
“They injected him with substances but he had no idea what they were. Every time he tried to refuse having [...]
Wagah/Amritsar, Aug.14 (ANI): To give a fillip to the “Save Sarabjit” movement, eminent film maker Mahesh Bhatt on Friday said that there is a tremendous need to build a pressure group to save Sarabjit from the death sentence that has been handed down to [...]
