Story Archive
2018-09-29
The high profile rights lawyer says the Myanmar leader 'knows better than anyone what it means to be a political prisoner’ in the country.
2018-09-28
U Thawbita had criticized Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and the country's powerful military in postings on Facebook.
2018-09-28
Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney calls on Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi to pardon two Reuters journalists who reported on atrocities committed by the country's military.
2018-09-28
Sources say Qeyser Qeyum leapt from his office window after learning of his impending arrest.
2018-09-28
The laptops are much in demand by officials and students in Pyongsong city, North Korean sources say.
2018-09-28
A ‘political study’ film confirms the sentence for Halmurat Ghopur, who was detained last year.
2018-09-28
The move comes as the ruling Chinese Communist Party tries to roll out controversial funeral reforms across the country.
2018-09-28
Wong will be unable to leave Hong Kong for the next eight months after a court refused to ease bail conditions linked to his use of civil disobedience during the 2014 Umbrella Movement.
2018-09-27
Two Uyghurs say Chinese authorities are forcing businessmen in Russia to return home, where they are routinely detained.
2018-09-27
Fellow rights activist and lawyer Teng Biao says concerns about repercussions for family back in China are likely weighing on her mind.
2018-09-27
The United Wa State Army continues its campaign of restrictions against Christians in areas under its control.
2018-09-27
Authorities fear Moon Jae-in may now be favored in popularity over Kim Jong Un, sources say.
2018-09-27
Cases of physical attacks by families watching their homes destroyed, sometimes with scant warning, are highly sensitive in China.
2018-09-27
Massively raised fines for failure to submit to inspection highlight large amounts of Chinese money slipping in under the authorities' radar.
2018-09-26
Rights group decry the punishment as politically motivated and demand their convictions be quashed.
2018-09-26
The men are found guilty of disrupting public order for attacking police with bricks, rocks, and Molotov cocktails.
2018-09-26
Officials send in several hundred police to deal with any resistance as bulldozers remove shrines to communist icons.
2018-09-26
If China wants its citizens and officials to continue to travel freely in the U.S., then Americans must be able to travel freely in Tibet, one of the act’s sponsors says.
2018-09-26
An anti-religion movement targeting employees of the state is spreading rapidly across eastern China, with punishments likely for anyone professing religious beliefs.
2018-09-25
An official says she is one of seven or eight people from Jam Bazar to have died in the camps.
2018-09-25
But it fails to call the atrocities crimes against humanity or genocide.
2018-09-25
Han Htoo and five other civil servants are accused of accepting bribes totaling tens of thousands of U.S. dollars in cash and gifts.
2018-09-25
The five, members of the Vietnam National Alliance of Self-Determination, have been charged with activities aimed at overthrowing the government.
2018-09-25
A family friend details the arrests of Muhammad Salih’s relatives in the months since his death in custody.
2018-09-25
Beijing rebuffs international concern over the move, while rights activists say China is exporting its own brand of political censorship to the city.
2018-09-25
Taiwan national Wei Ming-jen's shrine to the Chinese Communist Party has prompted questions about the island's national security.
2018-09-24
Azat Sultan was targeted for preaching ‘separatist ideas’ at the school, a former colleague said.
2018-09-24
The three Kirti monks, one still unidentified, staged protests on different days in Sichuan's Ngaba county.
2018-09-24
They object to having to contribute 25 percent of their monthly salary to the party.
2018-09-24
Thawbita is charged with violating Section 66(d) of the Telecommunications Act for online posts allegedly criticizing the country’s military chief.
