Photographer And Activist

Afghan youth rights activist Wazhma Sayle says she was shocked to see a photograph online, apparently of women dressed in black all-enveloping niqabs and gowns, staging a demonstration in support of country's new Taliban rulers at Kabul University.

Navjot Singh Sidhu, under attack after his photo with pro-Khalistan activist Gopal Singh Chawla emerged online, today claimed that he was photographed thousands of times during his visit to Pakistan for the Kartapur corridor groundbreaking ceremony and does not know who Gopal Chawla is.

Award-winning Bangladeshi photographer and activist Shahidul Alam was released from prison Tuesday after more than 100 days behind bars, in a closely watched freedom of speech case.

A Bangladesh court on Tuesday turned down a plea for bail by a prominent social activist and photographer arrested last month for spreading "propaganda and false information" during widespread student protests.

Award-winning photographer and rights activist Shahidul Alam, whose month-long detention has triggered an international outcry, failed to win bail on Tuesday after Bangladesh's high court refused to consider the request, his lawyer told AFP

Bangladesh is under international scanner for the arrest of award-winning photographer and social activist Shahidul Alam for critical remarks about the Awami League government over the recent student protests. Mr Alam, 63, arrested under law often called draconian, has claimed that he was tortured in police custody. His case will be heard by a cour...

Bangladesh's high court Tuesday ordered authorities to send an arrested award-winning photographer to hospital for treatment, a lawyer said, after the veteran journalist and rights activist accused police of beating him up in custody.

Dozens of university students and women's rights activists protested in different rallies in Seoul on Friday to denounce Trump, with some punching his face printed on a picket sign and tearing his photograph apart.

At least six students were injured in police lathicharge on Wednesday at the prestigious Aligarh Muslim University, which has been witnessing a row over a decades-old photograph of Pakistan founder and freedom fighter Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

After photographs captured young women in the heart of Bengaluru weeping after being molested on New Year's Eve, Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara must resign, say women's rights activists and opposition parties.

Pro-Kremlin activists who threw urine at pictures by US photographer Jock Sturges - best known for nude images of adolescents and their families - today forced its closure, a day after a government advisor condemned the images as "child pornography".

Slamming the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government after Women and Child Development (WCD) Minister Sandeep Kumar was seen in video and photographs that reportedly show him with two women, women activist Shamina Shafiq asserted that the party owes an explanation to the women of Delhi, who they promised security and now his own ministers are coming up wi...

This is not a week that BJP legislator OP Sharma is likely to forget in a hurry. On Monday, Mr Sharma was photographed in a menacing attack on a Left activist, for which he was arrested and granted bail yesterday. Today, a committee of the Delhi Assembly recommended that he be expelled for his sexist remarks against a woman legislator.

It seemed to be a scene from a bygone era. Activists, holding the national flag and carrying photographs of freedom fighter Sardar Vallabhai Patel, wanted to march ahead, but the police refused to let them do so.

Saudi women's rights activists posted online photographs and video clips of themselves defying a ban on female driving today, two days after members of the influential Shoura Council called for an end to the prohibition.

Afghan youth rights activist Wazhma Sayle says she was shocked to see a photograph online, apparently of women dressed in black all-enveloping niqabs and gowns, staging a demonstration in support of country's new Taliban rulers at Kabul University.

Navjot Singh Sidhu, under attack after his photo with pro-Khalistan activist Gopal Singh Chawla emerged online, today claimed that he was photographed thousands of times during his visit to Pakistan for the Kartapur corridor groundbreaking ceremony and does not know who Gopal Chawla is.

Award-winning Bangladeshi photographer and activist Shahidul Alam was released from prison Tuesday after more than 100 days behind bars, in a closely watched freedom of speech case.

A Bangladesh court on Tuesday turned down a plea for bail by a prominent social activist and photographer arrested last month for spreading "propaganda and false information" during widespread student protests.

Award-winning photographer and rights activist Shahidul Alam, whose month-long detention has triggered an international outcry, failed to win bail on Tuesday after Bangladesh's high court refused to consider the request, his lawyer told AFP

Bangladesh is under international scanner for the arrest of award-winning photographer and social activist Shahidul Alam for critical remarks about the Awami League government over the recent student protests. Mr Alam, 63, arrested under law often called draconian, has claimed that he was tortured in police custody. His case will be heard by a cour...

Bangladesh's high court Tuesday ordered authorities to send an arrested award-winning photographer to hospital for treatment, a lawyer said, after the veteran journalist and rights activist accused police of beating him up in custody.

Dozens of university students and women's rights activists protested in different rallies in Seoul on Friday to denounce Trump, with some punching his face printed on a picket sign and tearing his photograph apart.

At least six students were injured in police lathicharge on Wednesday at the prestigious Aligarh Muslim University, which has been witnessing a row over a decades-old photograph of Pakistan founder and freedom fighter Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

After photographs captured young women in the heart of Bengaluru weeping after being molested on New Year's Eve, Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara must resign, say women's rights activists and opposition parties.

Pro-Kremlin activists who threw urine at pictures by US photographer Jock Sturges - best known for nude images of adolescents and their families - today forced its closure, a day after a government advisor condemned the images as "child pornography".

Slamming the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government after Women and Child Development (WCD) Minister Sandeep Kumar was seen in video and photographs that reportedly show him with two women, women activist Shamina Shafiq asserted that the party owes an explanation to the women of Delhi, who they promised security and now his own ministers are coming up wi...

This is not a week that BJP legislator OP Sharma is likely to forget in a hurry. On Monday, Mr Sharma was photographed in a menacing attack on a Left activist, for which he was arrested and granted bail yesterday. Today, a committee of the Delhi Assembly recommended that he be expelled for his sexist remarks against a woman legislator.

It seemed to be a scene from a bygone era. Activists, holding the national flag and carrying photographs of freedom fighter Sardar Vallabhai Patel, wanted to march ahead, but the police refused to let them do so.

Saudi women's rights activists posted online photographs and video clips of themselves defying a ban on female driving today, two days after members of the influential Shoura Council called for an end to the prohibition.