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Editors Guild of India on Wednesday expressed concern over the use of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) against journalists and urged the administration to respect democratic values and stop their harassment in the name of national security. "Editors Guild...

Mon civil society groups have called a 12-hour shutter-down of all shops and business establishments in Mon town on September 9 in protest against “extortion and harassment”.Informing this in a statement, Konyak Union (KU) Mon branch president Kaiyan Toalem...

National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has registered a case on in connection with the harassment and misbehaviour meted out to an 80-year-old woman from Nagaland at Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport, Guwahati by Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel...

Police in Islamabad have registered a sedition case against Member of National Assembly (MNA) Mohsin Dawar and human rights activist Imaan Mazari as well as several students who participated in a protest against racial profiling and surveilling of Baloch...

The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said that journalists and media workers in Afghanistan are facing increasing “harassment” under the Taliban regime.RSF said the threats, interrogations and arbitrary arrests of journalists have increased and these actions are in violation...