Tag: Amnesty
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Muzaffarnagar riots: Amnesty blames UP govt for plight of survivors
Amnesty International on Saturday castigated the Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh for doing little to ensure justice and rehabilitation for the survivors of the 2013 Muzaffarnagar communal violence.
September 8, 2018 -
North Korea announces amnesty to celebrate 70th founding anniversary
North Korea plans to implement a general amnesty before celebrating its 70th founding anniversary on September 9, Pyongyang's state media said on Monday.
July 16, 2018 -
Amnesty criticises Tamil Nadu Police for Tuticorin deaths
Amnesty demanded that those responsible for the deaths and injuries caused to protesters must be brought to justice.
May 23, 2018 -
Amnesty wants Trudeau to raise pellet gun issue with Modi
Human rights organisation Amnesty International has urged Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to raise the threatened expulsion of Rohingyas from India during his upcoming visit here, along with issues like use of pellet guns in Jammu and Kashmir and justice to 1984 anti-Sikh riots victims. Ahead of Trudeau’s week-long India visit from Saturday, 17 February, …
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February 16, 2018 -
Rohingya villages in Myanmar still being burned: Amnesty
New satellite images and videos from Myanmar’s Rakhine state show smoke rising from Rohingya Muslim villages, contradicting State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi’s claims that military operations there have ended, according to Amnesty International. In a statement late Friday, the London-based group said its sources in Rakhine have claimed that the fires, captured in images …
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September 23, 2017 -
Obama calls Trump repeal of migrant amnesty ‘wrong’, ‘cruel’
Former US president Barack Obama decried his successor’s decision to end an amnesty for 800,000 people brought to America illegally as children, describing it as “wrong,” “self-defeating” and “cruel.” In a rare re-entry onto the political stage, Obama used a Facebook post to slam Trump’s decision and call on Congress to step in. “To target …
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September 6, 2017 -
Australia to hold first nationwide gun amnesty in 21 years
Australia will allow gun owners to hand in illegal firearms without penalty next month as concerns grow over crimes involving such weapons. The three-month amnesty will be the first such nationwide amnesty on surrendered firearms since 1996 when a lone gunman killed 35 people and galvanised support for tough gun controls. Justice Minister Michael Keenan …
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June 16, 2017 -
India doesn’t walk the talk on human rights: Amnesty
Welcoming the recommendations made to India during the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), Amnesty International on Friday said that this reflects the concerns it has raised previously and India needs to urgently tackle them. "Some of the key recommendations made at the UPR include criminalising marital rape, ending discrimination against LGBTI people, amending laws stifling civil …
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May 5, 2017 -
India registers 81% increase in death penalty in 2016: Amnesty
India registered an increase of 81 per cent in death sentences imposed in 2016 compared to 2015, a study released by Amnesty International has said. As per the global report on death sentences and executions, India awarded as many as 136 death sentences in 2016 as compared to 75 death sentences in 2015 and the …
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April 11, 2017 -
BJP’s Ananth Kumar flays Digvijay Singh for supporting Amnesty
Union Minister Ananth Kumar has criticised Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh for "supporting" a human rights organisation. Kumar did not name the organisation, however it was a veiled reference to Amnesty International, whose Indian chapter is facing sedition charges over alleged raising of anti-India slogans by its members during an event on Kashmir held in …
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August 23, 2016 -
Demand for arrest of Amnesty officials over anti-India slogans
About 200 ABVP activists protested here on Tuesday seeking the arrest of Amnesty India representatives for organising an event where anti-India slogans were allegedly raised. As the activists marched towards the Police Commissioner’s office to submit a memo, police blocked them at Raj Bhavan. When the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) activists refused to disperse, …
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August 16, 2016