Story Archive
2020-09-09
The army had earlier said the 36-year-old grandmother had fabricated the rape.
2020-09-09
Nineteen out of 29 villagers on trial say they were tortured by police during questioning after their arrest in January.
2020-09-09
A village leader says such accusations could lead to detention for ‘religious extremism.’
2020-09-09
Nomad families in Qinghai's Themchen county must leave their ancestral lands by the end of 2020, Chinese officials say.
2020-09-09
The letter marks one of the strongest condemnations to date by British lawmakers of the repression of Uyghurs.
2020-09-09
Protest leader Joshua Wong says he is followed daily by unidentified individuals amid a crackdown on dissent under a draconian national security law.
2020-09-09
Disney's live-action remake of the popular 1998 animation "Mulan" was partly filmed in China's repressive Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Credits for the film thank Chinese Communist Party security and propaganda entities in the XUAR that run or promote mass internment camps believed to have held as many as 1.8 million Uyghurs and others. Beyond angering the Uyghurs, the tale of a young female Chinese warrior also prompted boycotts in Hong Kong after actors in the film backed a police crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
2020-09-09
Australian ABC's Bill Birtles didn't initially think he was at risk after being told to leave China. Then the police came calling.
2020-09-08
The two privates implicate themselves and 17 other perpetrators from the Myanmar Army.
2020-09-08
A bomb attack in Ho Chi Minh City and a failed plot in Bien Hoa are tied to a Vietnamese exile group based in Canada.
2020-09-08
NGOs and international community express concern over arrests.
2020-09-08
Health workers say crowded war displaced camps raise risks of infection.
2020-09-08
However, the refugees there since May want to move to the mainland to be closer to their community.
2020-09-08
Cooperation aims to spread warning system data more quickly.
2020-09-08
Defense attorneys say they are not allowed to meet with their clients, and object to prejudicial videos shown in court.
2020-09-08
The megastudio has been slammed for filming in a region where millions of Uyghurs are persecuted.
2020-09-08
Cadres say thousands of people are being held at camps in Kashgar city, the airport and in a neighboring county.
2020-09-08
Bill Birtles and Michael Smith arrive home after their own government advises them to flee the country.
2020-09-08
Zhui Hun vowed to hunger strike at his trial, but his family wasn't informed of his hunger strike until he was critically ill.
2020-09-08
Abdulla and Abdurekim Abdurehim were jailed for sensitive content they had seen years earlier, an official said.
2020-09-07
Ethnic Mongolian public servants are suspended without pay for failing to implement orders decided in Beijing.
2020-09-07
One lawyer says the authorities could be treating the cases as relating to national security, following protests in the city at the weekend.
2020-09-04
Like the previous administration, Muhyiddin Yassin’s government will allow the refugees safe passage to a third country.
2020-09-04
He promises to sanction Chinese leaders for rights violations and to meet with exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, whom Trump has not yet met.
2020-09-04
Witnesses say that a column of soldiers torched homes in two communities, forcing villagers to flee.
2020-09-04
Chinese Communist Party chief Xi Jinping outlined "Five Never Allows" in a speech on Sept. 4, telling the world that "the Chinese people will never allow any individual or any force" to impose their will on China through bullying, change China's direction of progress or system of government, obstruct the Chinese people's efforts to create a better life, as well as distort the official line on China's history -- a total of 12 actions Beijing rejects.
2020-09-04
Death of Surnaa is the fourth to be reported in Inner Mongolia since tens of thousands of ethnic Mongolians launched protests over a new language policy.
2020-09-04
Defendants in the trial set for Sept. 7 have been denied access to lawyers and family, signers of the letter to the UN Human Rights Council say, urging the UN to speak out about the case.
2020-09-04
Medical staff say Seng Chanthorn suffered ‘internal injuries’ when she was slammed to the ground.
2020-09-04
Phoebe Liu, who is now based in Hollywood, explains how a long-dead Chinese dissident brought her to the point of religious conversion.
