Story Archive
2020-10-08
Yao Qiang’s appointment as president marks an end to more than seven decades of Uyghur leadership at XJU.
2020-10-08
Joshua Wong cites leaked data as showing the government flew a secretive mission on the day the activists' speedboat was seized.
2020-10-08
China is a serial rights abuser engaged in genocidal policies against Uyghurs, and shouldn't be allowed to renew its seat on the council, groups say.
2020-10-08
20 Facebook pages have registered under a policy that some Laos support and others are wary about.
2020-10-07
The Muslims were forced into displacement camps following communal clashes with Buddhists in 2012.
2020-10-07
U.S.-based expert says every defection comes with “collateral damage.”
2020-10-07
At least eight people have been killed since Oct. 1 and hundreds of Rohingya families have fled the camps.
2020-10-07
Zhao Wei, a Chinese national, was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury in 2018 as the head of a trafficking network.
2020-10-07
Major parties urge voters to be wary of purported early vote counts ahead of Nov. 8 polls.
2020-10-07
The comments are his first since Washington criticized a decision to demolish US-funded buildings there.
2020-10-07
Thirty-nine nations sign a resolution, up from 23 who backed a similar one last year.
2020-10-07
A man whose arrest was caught on camera takes aim at police who injured his hands while restraining him.
2020-10-07
Hu Baolong is a veteran rights activist and lawyer who supported parents' protests against an end to Mongolian-medium teaching in schools.
2020-10-07
Pham Doan Trang's arrest for propaganda against the state came hours after Vietnam held human rights talks with the United States.
2020-10-06
Tibetan sources say the increased police presence is aimed solely at surveillance.
2020-10-06
Trade companies used to be the envy of ordinary citizens, but now traders are going bankrupt.
2020-10-06
Two children were killed as they and 13 others led government soldiers through minefields under duress, villagers said.
2020-10-06
Health official points to ‘returnees’ from refugee camps in Bangladesh, but others say the infection course is unclear.
2020-10-06
The teenager had been arrested for ‘illegally entering a prohibited place.’
2020-10-06
Ablikim Kalkun is sentenced to 18 years over content that would have been pre-approved by censors.
2020-10-06
Data from a flight-tracking website shows two Hong Kong government aircraft in the immediate vicinity of a speedboat carrying activists fleeing to democratic Taiwan.
2020-10-06
A teaching union will assist the teacher to appeal the decision, which is criticized by an international human rights organization and a lawmaker representing the sector.
2020-10-06
Former elite comprehensive surveillance of the party, forceful suppression of different opinions within the party, and select enforcement of rules.
2020-10-05
NGOs, trafficking victims find the message ill-timed and offensive in a country struggling with trafficking.
2020-10-05
Hanoi indicts award-winning dissident poet and Vietnam War veteran.
2020-10-05
"Whatever hopes for reforms we had were reversed. It has regressed back to totalitarianism," says Cai Xia.
2020-10-05
Some South China Sea reefs are “gone forever” due to the creation of military bases atop them, according to marine scientist John McManus.
2020-10-05
Qelbinur Sidik describes her experiences working at Xinjiang internment camps.
2020-10-05
Chen Jianfang is handed a three-year jail term for subversion after more than a year of incommunicado detention.
2020-10-05
The boy was taken into custody after entering the CNRP’s former headquarters to collect flags, authorities say.
