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Two Men Allegedly Hired To Kill Rights Activist Arrested In Delhi: Police
Two men, who were allegedly hired to kill human rights activist Sushil Pandit, were arrested from the RK Puram area,the Delhi Police said on Saturday.
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Bahrain Rights Activist Jailed For 5 Years For "Insulting" Tweets
A Bahraini human rights activist was sentenced to five years in prison on Wednesday for criticising Saudi Arabia's air strikes in Yemen and accusing Bahrain's prison authorities of torture, his lawyer and fellow activists said.
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Pak Bids Farewell To "Moral Compass" Asma Jahangir, Thousands Mourn
Pakistan bid farewell to its top rights advocate Asma Jahangir Tuesday, with thousands cramming into a major cricket ground under tight security to grieve the diminutive woman described by many as the country's "moral compass".
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Kashmir Activist Booked Under Public Safety Act
Authorities today booked Kashmir human rights activist under the Public Safety Act (PSA) that allows jailing of a person without trial for two years.
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Pakistani Army Repeating Horrors Of 1971 In Balochistan: Baloch Activist
Asserting that history was repeating in itself, Farzana Majeed Baluch, a Baloch human rights activist, has said that human rights violations committed by Pakistan in Balochistan and the army targeting Baloch women was as bad as the torture and rape of women that took place during the Liberation War of 1971, which eventually led to the creation of a...
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China Activist Jailed For More Than 7 Years
A Chinese human rights activist was convicted of subverting state power and jailed for seven and a half years today, a court said, the latest step in a sweeping crackdown on dissent.
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Top Human Rights Activist Rearrested In Bahrain
Bahraini security forces rearrested leading human rights activist Nabeel Rajab on Monday in a dawn raid in the Gulf kingdom, his family said on Twitter.
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Russia Arrests Human Rights Activist on Suspicion of Fraud
A Moscow court on Thursday placed a leading human rights activist in pre-trial detention on suspicion of fraud, a case critics say is part of an ongoing crackdown on civil society.
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Pakistani Human Rights Activist Shot Dead in Karachi
Gunmen shot dead a Pakistani human rights activist on Friday after she hosted a talk on the politics of Baluchistan province, where security forces are fighting a separatist insurgency, police and associates said.
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Saudi Arabia Jails Human Rights Activist For 15 Years
A Jeddah court sentenced prominent Saudi rights lawyer Walid abu al-Khair to 15 years in prison on Sunday on charges that included seeking to undermine the state and insulting the judiciary, the state news agency reported.
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I had no apprehension in doing a biopic, says Shahid director
Biopic is a territory where very few Bollywood filmmakers want to tread, but Hansal Mehta was not apprehensive to take on the real-life story of slain human rights activist and lawyer Shahid Azmi even though people dissuaded him.
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Syria forces killed 28 protesters: Rights activist
Syrian security forces have killed a total of 28 people, human rights activists said on Sunday.Twenty-six died on Saturday at the funeral of protesters killed in and around the southern agricultural town of Daraa, while two more were shot dead in the industrial town of Homs, in west central Syria."Police and security services broke up peaceful demo...
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Now, a case against Binayak Sen's wife
The Nagpur Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Monday registered a case against Human Rights activist Binayak Sen's wife, Ilina Sen, for 'misusing' an event organised by an association headed by her and seeking support for some alleged Naxal sympathisers. The case against Ilina Sen was filed at Wardha. The Nagpur ATS have said there were many fore...
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Binayak Sen bail plea hearing to continue in High Court tomorrow
The Chhattisgarh High Court will continue hearing of the petition for the suspension of sentence and grant of bail of human rights activist Dr. Binayak Sen tomorrow. He was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment on sedition charges by the Additional District and Sessions Court at Raipur last month. One of India's most eminent criminal lawyers...
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Tamil Nadu: Human rights activists jailed on impersonation charges
Tamil Nadu police have arrested five human rights activists on charges of impersonation. Their offence: they were on a fact-finding mission against a sub inspector facing torture charges. Four of them are Dalits. Police say these activists of the Dalit Foundation in Tamil Nadu's Tirunelvelli district posed as government employees and tried to extra...
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Two Men Allegedly Hired To Kill Rights Activist Arrested In Delhi: Police
Two men, who were allegedly hired to kill human rights activist Sushil Pandit, were arrested from the RK Puram area,the Delhi Police said on Saturday.
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Bahrain Rights Activist Jailed For 5 Years For "Insulting" Tweets
A Bahraini human rights activist was sentenced to five years in prison on Wednesday for criticising Saudi Arabia's air strikes in Yemen and accusing Bahrain's prison authorities of torture, his lawyer and fellow activists said.
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Pak Bids Farewell To "Moral Compass" Asma Jahangir, Thousands Mourn
Pakistan bid farewell to its top rights advocate Asma Jahangir Tuesday, with thousands cramming into a major cricket ground under tight security to grieve the diminutive woman described by many as the country's "moral compass".
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Kashmir Activist Booked Under Public Safety Act
Authorities today booked Kashmir human rights activist under the Public Safety Act (PSA) that allows jailing of a person without trial for two years.
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Pakistani Army Repeating Horrors Of 1971 In Balochistan: Baloch Activist
Asserting that history was repeating in itself, Farzana Majeed Baluch, a Baloch human rights activist, has said that human rights violations committed by Pakistan in Balochistan and the army targeting Baloch women was as bad as the torture and rape of women that took place during the Liberation War of 1971, which eventually led to the creation of a...
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China Activist Jailed For More Than 7 Years
A Chinese human rights activist was convicted of subverting state power and jailed for seven and a half years today, a court said, the latest step in a sweeping crackdown on dissent.
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Top Human Rights Activist Rearrested In Bahrain
Bahraini security forces rearrested leading human rights activist Nabeel Rajab on Monday in a dawn raid in the Gulf kingdom, his family said on Twitter.
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Russia Arrests Human Rights Activist on Suspicion of Fraud
A Moscow court on Thursday placed a leading human rights activist in pre-trial detention on suspicion of fraud, a case critics say is part of an ongoing crackdown on civil society.
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Pakistani Human Rights Activist Shot Dead in Karachi
Gunmen shot dead a Pakistani human rights activist on Friday after she hosted a talk on the politics of Baluchistan province, where security forces are fighting a separatist insurgency, police and associates said.
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Saudi Arabia Jails Human Rights Activist For 15 Years
A Jeddah court sentenced prominent Saudi rights lawyer Walid abu al-Khair to 15 years in prison on Sunday on charges that included seeking to undermine the state and insulting the judiciary, the state news agency reported.
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I had no apprehension in doing a biopic, says Shahid director
Biopic is a territory where very few Bollywood filmmakers want to tread, but Hansal Mehta was not apprehensive to take on the real-life story of slain human rights activist and lawyer Shahid Azmi even though people dissuaded him.
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Syria forces killed 28 protesters: Rights activist
Syrian security forces have killed a total of 28 people, human rights activists said on Sunday.Twenty-six died on Saturday at the funeral of protesters killed in and around the southern agricultural town of Daraa, while two more were shot dead in the industrial town of Homs, in west central Syria."Police and security services broke up peaceful demo...
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Now, a case against Binayak Sen's wife
The Nagpur Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Monday registered a case against Human Rights activist Binayak Sen's wife, Ilina Sen, for 'misusing' an event organised by an association headed by her and seeking support for some alleged Naxal sympathisers. The case against Ilina Sen was filed at Wardha. The Nagpur ATS have said there were many fore...
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Binayak Sen bail plea hearing to continue in High Court tomorrow
The Chhattisgarh High Court will continue hearing of the petition for the suspension of sentence and grant of bail of human rights activist Dr. Binayak Sen tomorrow. He was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment on sedition charges by the Additional District and Sessions Court at Raipur last month. One of India's most eminent criminal lawyers...
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Tamil Nadu: Human rights activists jailed on impersonation charges
Tamil Nadu police have arrested five human rights activists on charges of impersonation. Their offence: they were on a fact-finding mission against a sub inspector facing torture charges. Four of them are Dalits. Police say these activists of the Dalit Foundation in Tamil Nadu's Tirunelvelli district posed as government employees and tried to extra...
