Amnesty News

Pakistan's Ahmadis face Rs 1.5 lakh fines and legal action for performing Eid al-Adha rituals, as LHCBA urges police crackdown. Amnesty International slams the move as religious persecution, amid rising violence against the community.  

India ranks 11th among countries of origin for DACA students, according to the US Citizenship and Immigration Services statistics available till March 31, 2017.

Human rights NGO Amnesty International urged Malaysia on Sunday to free a popular political cartoonist who has been arrested over making offensive drawings of Prime Minister Najib Razak.

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.

"I don't know nor I have heard in the past about it (Amnesty) or anyone from it involving in any anti-national activities," the minister said.

Amnesty India has been booked for sedition and other unlawful acts after anti-India slogans were raised at an event it organised in Bengaluru last week.

According to reports, father of one of the three students arrested in Karnataka works in the Indian Army.

Amnesty India of the international human rights organisation was booked for sedition and other unlawful acts after anti-India slogans were raised at an event.

A police official involved in the investigation said that a First Information Report has been registered and investigations will proceed.

Abdul Basit, 43, who is paralysed from the waist down, was convicted in May 2009 of murder and is scheduled to be hanged on Wednesday.

There will be no common amnesty for over 200 prisoners who staged a hunger strike in jails throughout the country, the Sri Lankan govt said today.

The short window for declaring undisclosed assets under the proposed black money law will spare tax payers of prosecution but will have to pay tax and penalty as it won't be an amnesty scheme.

The government Wednesday ruled out any tax amnesty scheme to unearth black money saying it goes against honest taxpayers even as it sought to send out a positive signal to investors by promising a re-look at the controversial GAAR shortly.