Tag: Amnesty

Indian officials on Friday raided the offices of renowned human rights group Amnesty International on trumped up charges of foreign funding from the United...

Special Assistant to Prime Minister Naeemul Haque on Sunday claimed that opposition members have been asking the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government for leniency in...

BEIRUT: The Syrian government has announced an amnesty for men who deserted the army or have avoided military service, giving them several months to...

JAKARTA: A police crackdown on petty crime in the run-up to the Asian Games in Indonesia has claimed dozens of lives, Amnesty International said...

JOHANNESBURG: The new leader of Amnesty International says many world leaders, especially President Donald Trump, are rolling back gains made in respecting human rights. Kumi...

  JUBA: President Salva Kiir granted a general amnesty to rebels in South Sudan's civil war, including his former deputy Riek Machar, as a rights...

  BEIRUT: A leading international watchdog on Tuesday urged the US-led coalition battling the Islamic State group in Syria to further investigate civilian deaths in...

ISTANBUL: Amnesty International on Thursday accused Turkish forces of allowing Syrian armed groups to commit major rights abuses in the northern region of Afrin,...

DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates launched a three-month visa amnesty programme on Wednesday, hoping to resolve a Catch-22 for foreign workers who are fined...

JAKARTA: Security forces in Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua have unlawfully killed at least 95 people in the eight years since 2010, with almost...

YANGON: A Rohingya Muslim armed group on Friday denied a report that its members killed scores of Hindu civilians in August last year, amid...

Former adviser says such schemes have no linkage to economy ISLAMABAD: The federal government is about to announce another tax amnesty scheme despite the...

The crisis in Myanmar and reported massacres of Rohingya Muslims are the consequence of a society encouraged to hate and a lack of global...

ABUJA: Nigerian Air Force killed at least 35 people in attacks on villages in the northeastern state of Adamawa in December, Amnesty International said...

  A Saudi court on Thursday issued harsh jail terms against two human rights defenders despite reforms touted by the kingdom's crown prince, Amnesty International...

LAGOS: Amnesty International on Tuesday called for Shell to be prosecuted for allegedly helping Nigeria’s military to commit human rights abuses in the oil-rich south...

Three-judge ICT panel says charges against political workers ‘proved beyond doubt’   DHAKA: A special tribunal in Bangladeshi on Wednesday sentenced death to six political workers,...