When asked about the matter, the DM of Nawada said she could not recall any such case. “I cannot recall the matter as of now. Therefore, I am not in a position to comment on the issue at this moment,” Safina said.Continue Reading
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Human rights groups have called for a review of Iran’s punishment laws after a young Iranian woman granted a pardon to a man who blinded her by throwing acid in her eyes.Continue Reading
Ammar Qorabi, who heads the National Organisation for Human Rights, reported the toll and also said army attacks across the country on Sunday killed at least 121 people and wounded dozens more.Continue Reading
CEBU CITY — A false accusation amounts to a human rights abuse, said the couple whom police first tagged as suspects in the abduction and murder of a Cebuana schoolgirl.That’s why they filed a complaint asking the United Nations (UN) to compel the Rep…Continue Reading
A Malawian human rights activist said Friday he is in hiding after being threatened before last week’s violent protests in this southern African country.Continue Reading
A Malawian human rights activist says he is in hiding after being threatened by the government in the aftermath of last week’s violent protests.Continue Reading
The body of a prominent Sri Lankan human rights activist missing since February last year has been found, the United Nations said Friday.Continue Reading
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) is strongly opposing the proposal to allow the remains of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos to be buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani, along with the option to give the former President full military honors.Continue Reading
Foreign governments and human rights groups say the relatively light sentences given to 12 men who participated in the brutal killings of three minority Muslim sect members sends a chilling message about growing religious intolerance in Indonesia.Continue Reading
Human rights group Task Force Detainees of the Philippines on Friday criticized President Benigno Aquino III’s granting of clemency to political prisoner Mariano Umbrero, who died on July 15.Continue Reading
The United States said Wednesday it will keep pressing Russia on human rights but hoped to maintain cooperation after Moscow responded angrily to a ban on officials linked to a lawyer’s death.Continue Reading
A human rights group expressed concerned about group indictments and trials of hundreds of border guards accused in a bloody 2009 mutiny and urged Bangladesh to ensure international standards for fair trials were followed.Continue Reading
AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian troops and security forces backed by tanks killed eight civilians on Wednesday when they stormed a town near Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for human rights said, in the latest crackdown on protests against President Bashar a…Continue Reading
A human rights group says Syrian security forces have killed eight people in an attack on a Damascus suburb.Continue Reading