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Malaysian Government Mulling Harsher Laws Against LGBTQ Community for 'Unhealthy Activities'

Malaysia's Deputy Minister Ahmad Marzuk Shaary called for stricter punishment for the LGBTQ community and urged the public to report "unhealthy activities".

Jan 19, 2021

By Krishnendu Banerjee

Peshawar to Pennsylvania, Pakistan Targets Minority Ahmadiyya Community

The USCIRF last week demanded immediate release of a Pakistani Ahmadi woman who has been accused of making blasphemous remarks.

Jan 15, 2021

By IANS

Uganda Vs Facebook: All Social Media and Messaging Apps Banned Ahead of Election

Facebook removed hundreds of pro-government accounts for voter manipulation and in retaliation, Yoweri Museveni's government banned social all media platforms.

Jan 13, 2021

By Krishnendu Banerjee

Facebook

Twitter Takes Down China's US Embassy Tweet Calling Uighur Women 'Baby-Making Machines'

Twitter faced backlash as the post remained online for over a day but on Friday evening it took the tweet down citing dehumanization of people.

Jan 10, 2021

By Krishnendu Banerjee

Trump Calls for Healing and Reconciliation: FULL TEXT of Speech

The incredible journey is only just beginning, the President tells the supporters.

Jan 8, 2021

By IBTimes APAC Desk

Israel Company NSO's Pegasus Spyware Used to Hack Middle East Journalists' iPhones

Canada-based Citizen Lab found that 36 journalists' iPhones were hacked exploiting a "zero-click" vulnerability in Apple's iMessage.

Dec 22, 2020

By Krishnendu Banerjee

Cybersecurity

Boko Haram Video Purportedly Shows Kidnapped Kankara Schoolboys Pleading For Help

In the video, a teenaged boy told the camera that he along with other children have been caught by a gang belonging to the Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau.

Dec 18, 2020

By Vishakha Sonawane

Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Accuses WHO Chief Tedros Ghebreyseus of Aiding Genocide in Ethiopia

American Economist David Steinman, who was nominated for Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, has lodged a complaint at the ICC, demanding the WHO chief's prosecution.

Dec 15, 2020

By Krishnendu Banerjee

King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia

African Migrants Are Tortured and Killed in Inhuman Saudi Arabian Migrant Camps - HRW

Video footage shows hundreds of men lying on top of each other in squalid rooms; eye witness says Saudi guards tortured three workers to death.

Dec 15, 2020

By Jacob J

Pedophile Rapist Cho Doo Soon Face Revealed; Car Blocked, Eggs Thrown as he Walks Out of Jail [Video]

Cho Doo Soon served 12-year jail term for brutally raping an 8-year-old girl in Ansan, South Korea. He was released on Dec 12 amid.protests.

Dec 13, 2020

By Suman Priya Mendonca

25 Governments Using SS7 Spy Tool For Cellphone Location to Track Activists, Opponents

At least 25 countries including Australia are using the spy tool to track down human rights activists and political opponents anywhere in the world

Dec 2, 2020

By Krishnendu Banerjee

Cybersecurity

Will Trump Pardon Michael Flynn? Who Are Other Aides and Allies in the List?

Flynn getting a pardon would make it the latest instance of the President using his expansive pardon power for a high-profile ally.

Nov 25, 2020

By R. Ghosh

US, UK Sourcing PPEs from Chinese Factories that Use North Korean Slave Labor, Report Says

The factories in Dandong, China, have North Korean laborers who are underpaid and forced to work 18 hours a day without any time off.

Nov 21, 2020

By Krishnendu Banerjee

Coronavirus

File photo of an ethnic Uighur woman on a drip at a hospital in Shaya county of Aksu

Mosques Demolished and 600 Imams Jailed, No Funeral Rites for Uighur Muslims - Report

The detention of imams has paralyzed the religious life of Muslims in northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

Nov 21, 2020

By Jacob J

Deborah Jean Christiansen, The Dead Voter 'Exposed' by Trump Campaign, is Actually Alive

The Trump campaign team had claimed that Deborah Jean Christiansen had died in 2018.

Nov 19, 2020

By Suman Priya Mendonca

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