Ottawa, Jan 11 (IANS) US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to make the human rights issue a key focus of his visit to China from January 13-17, asking him to press the Chinese government to end its repression in Xinjiang and ensure full compliance with international labour rights conventions. HRW has stated that Carney, during his visit to China, should raise key issues, including links between the Chinese government’s forced labour and imports to Can…
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Tel Aviv, Jan 3 (IANS) Pakistan, under its Army Chief Asim Munir, risks normalising transnational repression through threats to families, digital intimidation, and court-backed censorship– a move that would not only silence its nationals abroad but also undermine the principle that free speech cannot be controlled by foreign regimes, a report said on Saturday. It stated that by consolidating military rule and exporting intimidation through legal and digital channels, Pakistan is no longer just …
Islamabad, Dec 25 (IANS) Mirza Shahzad Akbar, who earlier served as the accountability advisor in the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government led by country’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan, was brutally attacked in the United Kingdom, an incident that has left him “bruised and fractured”. A former Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM), Akbar has been living in exile in the UK since April 2022.”I have been attacked and been in the hospital and with the police. Bruised and fractured …