Human Rights
- Middle East
Iran steps up arrests of Baha’is amid security crackdown
Tehran: Peyvand Naimi has spent more than six months in an Iranian prison, accused of killing state security agents during nationwide protests, although his family says no formal charges or evidence have…
- World
Vietnam ramping up arrests to crush dissent, says rights group
Vietnam is increasingly using broadly written laws to arrest activists, dissidents and others that authorities consider a threat to the Communist party’s rule, according to a new analysis released Monday by a…
- World
UN Security Council urges Taliban to restore women’s rights
United Nations: The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Monday, June 15, calling on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to swiftly reverse their crackdown on women and to combat militant groups inside Afghanistan…
- World
Norwegian journalist’s Instagram account suspended after questioning Modi
Norwegian journalist, Helle Lyng on Wednesday, May 20, said that her Instagram account has been suspended. The suspension comes a day after she questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a press conference,…
- World
Norway journo questions PM Modi over avoiding questions from media
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s refusal to take questions from journalists during his visit to Norway has triggered debate over press freedom and diplomatic media norms, after Norwegian journalist Helle Lyng repeatedly raised…
- Telangana
HRF writes to UP DGP over action against workers
Hyderabad: The Human Rights Forum (HRF) has urged the Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police (DGP) to act against arbitrary police action against protesting workers. In a letter addressed to the DGP,…
- India
Group of intellectuals, lawyers, social activists demand immediate end to SIR
New Delhi: A group of intellectuals, lawyers, students and social activists have demanded the immediate termination of the Special Intensive Review (SIR) of the electoral rolls, which they said is “against citizens’…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Man alleges custodial torture, Police Commissioner seeks report
Hyderabad: Tension gripped Hyderabad’s Falaknuma on Friday, March 27, after a young man was allegedly tortured in police custody. Hyderabad Police Commissioner VC Sajjanar asked the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Rajendranagar,…
- Pakistan
Two Pakistan human rights lawyers jailed for 17 years
Islamabad: A Pakistani court on Saturday, January 24, sentenced two human rights lawyers to 17 years in prison each over social media posts the authorities claimed were hostile to the state and…
- Pakistan
Pakistan human rights lawyer Imaan Zainab, husband arrested
Islamabad: Pakistan’s prominent human rights lawyer Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir and her husband, lawyer Hadi Ali Chattha, were arrested on Friday, January 23, while they were en route to a court in Islamabad.…
- World
US declines to participate in UN periodic review on its human rights issues
Geneva: A UN official confirmed that the United States has informed the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) that it would not participate in the fourth cycle…
- Telangana
Telangana HRC asks govt to release pending salary for Mahila Shakthi Kendra staff
Hyderabad: The Telangana Human Rights Commission directed the Chief Secretary of the government of Telangana on Friday, August 8, to immediately release all pending remunerations to the staff working in Mahila Shakthi…
- Telangana
NHRC to hear 109 human rights violation cases in Telangana
Hyderabad: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is conducting a two-day Open Hearing and Camp Sitting in Hyderabad on July 28 and 29 to address 109 cases of alleged human rights violations…
- India
Global Torture Index tags India ‘high risk’ over police brutality, human rights crisis
A recent report by a global alliance of anti-torture organisations has classified India as a “high risk” country in the Global Torture Index, citing frequent incidents of severe beatings, forced confessions, and…
- Middle East
Israeli strikes kill 9 in southwestern Syria
Nawa: Israeli strikes in Syria reportedly killed at least nine people in the southwest of the country on Thursday, as Israel accused Turkey of trying to build a “protectorate” in Syria. Syrian…
