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Taliban Morality Police Arrest Men For Wrong Hairstyle, Skipping Mosque: UN
Over half of detentions made under laws regulating people's conduct, concerned "either men not having the compliant beard length or hairstyle, or barbers providing non-compliant beard trimming or haircuts."
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US Warns Citizens Against China Travel Amid Risk Of "Wrongful Detention"
Americans should reconsider travel to China due to the risk of wrongful detention, warned the US State Department in an updated travel advisory issued on Friday, CNN reported.
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"Very Wrong, Condemnable": Arvind Kejriwal Slams Police Action On Wrestlers
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal condemned the police detention of wrestlers protesting at Jantar Mantar here on Sunday and called their act "very wrong."
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UN Expert Apologises For Wrong Tab On Children In US Migration Detention
An independent UN expert has apologised for misspeaking during a news conference in Geneva this week, correcting his claim that more than 100,000 children were being held in migration-related US detention.
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"I Told Them I Will Die As A Proud Indian": Madhubala Mondal To NDTV
Madhubala Mondal, 59, wrongfully declared a foreigner and held in a detention centre for three years, speaks to NDTV after being released and recounts some of the horrors she faced during her detention
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2 Teens Allegedly Beaten Up By Mumbai Police Over Suspicion of IS Links
2 teenagers in Mumbai's Bandra have alleged that they were wrongfully detained and beaten up by policemen, who asked them to "go to Pakistan". Sources in the local police told NDTV that they were picked up after the police suspected them of being "terrorists" or "agents of the Islamic State".
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Chinese man compensated for 12 years of wrong detention
Li Huailiang was the prime suspect in the rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl in Yexian County in Pingdingshan in August 2001.
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Sebi gets direct powers to attach properties, bank accounts
In a major upgrade of powers given to the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), the government has allowed it to pass orders like search and seizure, attachment of properties, arrest and detention of defaulters and pass disgorgement directions to recover the wrongful gains made in contravention of laws.
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Indian student wrongly detained, to get 600,000 Oz dollars
An Indian student, who was detained in 2004, by Australian immigration authorities for violating visa rules, is likely to get a whopping compensation of 600,000 Australian dollars after the country's human rights body termed his detention as 'arbitrary'.
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Australia to pay for accusing Indian doctor of terror
Dr Mohamed Haneef, the Indian doctor wrongly accused of terrorism, will be awarded ''substantial'' compensation by the Australian government for his wrongful arrest in 2007.Haneef returned to Australia last week to settle his compensation claim. The 31-year-old doctor said the settlement would help him re-establish his career and reputation and sta...
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Taliban Morality Police Arrest Men For Wrong Hairstyle, Skipping Mosque: UN
Over half of detentions made under laws regulating people's conduct, concerned "either men not having the compliant beard length or hairstyle, or barbers providing non-compliant beard trimming or haircuts."
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US Warns Citizens Against China Travel Amid Risk Of "Wrongful Detention"
Americans should reconsider travel to China due to the risk of wrongful detention, warned the US State Department in an updated travel advisory issued on Friday, CNN reported.
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"Very Wrong, Condemnable": Arvind Kejriwal Slams Police Action On Wrestlers
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal condemned the police detention of wrestlers protesting at Jantar Mantar here on Sunday and called their act "very wrong."
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UN Expert Apologises For Wrong Tab On Children In US Migration Detention
An independent UN expert has apologised for misspeaking during a news conference in Geneva this week, correcting his claim that more than 100,000 children were being held in migration-related US detention.
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"I Told Them I Will Die As A Proud Indian": Madhubala Mondal To NDTV
Madhubala Mondal, 59, wrongfully declared a foreigner and held in a detention centre for three years, speaks to NDTV after being released and recounts some of the horrors she faced during her detention
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2 Teens Allegedly Beaten Up By Mumbai Police Over Suspicion of IS Links
2 teenagers in Mumbai's Bandra have alleged that they were wrongfully detained and beaten up by policemen, who asked them to "go to Pakistan". Sources in the local police told NDTV that they were picked up after the police suspected them of being "terrorists" or "agents of the Islamic State".
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Chinese man compensated for 12 years of wrong detention
Li Huailiang was the prime suspect in the rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl in Yexian County in Pingdingshan in August 2001.
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Sebi gets direct powers to attach properties, bank accounts
In a major upgrade of powers given to the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), the government has allowed it to pass orders like search and seizure, attachment of properties, arrest and detention of defaulters and pass disgorgement directions to recover the wrongful gains made in contravention of laws.
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Indian student wrongly detained, to get 600,000 Oz dollars
An Indian student, who was detained in 2004, by Australian immigration authorities for violating visa rules, is likely to get a whopping compensation of 600,000 Australian dollars after the country's human rights body termed his detention as 'arbitrary'.
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Australia to pay for accusing Indian doctor of terror
Dr Mohamed Haneef, the Indian doctor wrongly accused of terrorism, will be awarded ''substantial'' compensation by the Australian government for his wrongful arrest in 2007.Haneef returned to Australia last week to settle his compensation claim. The 31-year-old doctor said the settlement would help him re-establish his career and reputation and sta...
