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  • Massacred at Home, in Misery Abroad, 730,000 Rohingya Are Mired in Hopelessness

    In a deserted arrivals trailer, uniformed officers loiter at their desks, expectant grins on their faces “I’m very positive,” Foreign Affairs Minister A.K. Abdul Momen told reporters in early August. Myanmar police officers shelter in the shade of a tree while Rakhine villagers farm in the razed Rohingya “Why do foreigners use this word?” A child in the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp in June. Myanmar officials also accuse Bangladeshi officials of dawdling, and wonder if they’re reluctant to let

  • Iran: Musicians sentenced to 74 lashes for not wearing hijab

    Although the official judiciary news agency has yet to publish the ruling, rights groups and lawyers She added that the contrast between official imagery and the prosecution of artists exposed “the gap

  • U.N. says nearly 3,500 Afghans killed or hurt in first half of 2020

    the United States and the Taliban signed an agreement in Doha, laying out plans for the withdrawal of foreign

  • Families of Baloch Activists Relive a Nightmare

    When she asked why Mahrang had not received medical care, she says, the police officer casually replied But she is a political prisoner,” says Nadia, adding that sources told her police officers had been pressured When this journalist asked police officers whether Section 144 applied only to the Baloch protest and not the counter-protest, one officer remained silent while another smirked.

  • Russian Missile Strike Hits Crowded Shopping Mall in Ukraine

    and big, and disassembling them by hand is impossible,” said Volodymyr Hychkan, an emergency services official Ukrainian officials said Russian Tu-22M3 long-range bombers flying over Russia’s western Kursk region 24 hours — including Kyiv and major cities in the country’s south and east, according to Zelenskyy’s office

  • Activists call for 'global spotlight' on plight of Kashmiris

    Muslim-majority region a special status, with powers to make its own laws in all matters except finance, defence, foreign But official data show a growing number of Kashmiri youth joining rebel ranks.

  • Bodies of 20 Rohingya women and children fleeing Burma wash up in Bangladesh after boat capsizes

    Bangladesh's border guards have recovered the bodies of 20 Rohingya women and children whose boat capsized, an official clashes have so far killed at least 117 people, most of them Rohingya insurgents but also security officials

  • EU set to prepare sanctions on Myanmar generals - diplomats

    sanctions against Myanmar generals over killings of Rohingya Muslims by formally calling on the bloc’s foreign Foreign ministers will also ask Mogherini and the EU’s foreign service, the EEAS, on Monday to look at In a statement expected to be released on Monday at a regular gathering of EU foreign ministers, the reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, detained on Dec. 12 over accusations that they violated Myanmar’s Official shelter over the border in Bangladesh, according to the United Nations. https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-myanmar-rohingya-eu

  • UN Review to Examine Croatia's Human Rights Record

    By OHCHR United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner Logo GENEVA – The human rights

  • Russian crimes of sexual violence in Ukraine

    “Some people, including police officers, pass the blame. Officials and international groups, such as the UN, have called Russia’s use of sexual violence in Ukraine Pavlichenko’s office said 71 of the 208 cases of sexual violence, involving 81 survivors, were undergoing

  • Israeli airstrike in Gaza kills at least 29, many children

    Health officials in Gaza say an Israeli airstrike has killed at least 29 Palestinians, including children Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images Health officials in Gaza say an Israeli airstrike has killed at least

  • China Uighurs: A model's video gives a rare glimpse inside internment

    The BBC sent detailed requests for comment to the Chinese Foreign Ministry and Xinjiang authorities but clothes and his phone to the airport, before he was put on a flight from Foshan and escorted by two officers "I lifted the sack on my head and told the police officer that the handcuffs were so tight they hurt When the officers later came around with thermometers, several inmates including Mr Ghappar, registered After heavy criticism over the issue recently from the US, a spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry,

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