Tag: crackdown

529 more netted on 10th day of ‘Operation Devil Hunt’

- Times Report -

The joint forces Monday apprehended 529  more individual under the nationwide ‘Operation Devil Hunt’ on the 10th day of the crackdown aimed at checking the move to destabilize the country. A short message of the Police Headquarters issued today said a total of  1503 more people were nabbed from across the country

Pakistan declares crackdown on migrants

- Times Report -

Pakistan's government announced a major crackdown Tuesday on migrants in the country illegally, saying it would expel them starting next month and raising alarm among foreigners without documentation who include an estimated 1.7 million Afghans. The country's caretaker Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti said the crackdown was not aimed at Afghans and

Iran has a long history of political activism and protest

- Armani Syed -

Iranian citizens have been risking their lives to protest the nation’s authoritarian regime for over nine weeks, and despite the bloodshed amid a crackdown by security forces, they show no signs of backing down. According to academics, the protest movement galvanized by the killing of Mahsa Amini—a 21-year-old Kurdish Iranian

Iran protesters return to streets, defying deadly crackdown

- Associated Press -

Protests flared again in Iran Saturday over the death of a woman in morality police custody, despite a crackdown by security forces in which at least 41 people have died, according to official figures. The main reformist party inside Iran called for the repeal of the mandatory Islamic dress code that

Myanmar military intensifies crackdown on journalists

- Nava Thakuria -

As the imprisonment of scribes and other democratic activists under arbitrary laws becomes a new normal in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma), the Switzerland based media rights body Press Emblem Campaign urges the military regime in Nay Pie Taw to release all media workers unreservedly. The military junta led by general