Tag: Human rights
Rights network urges China to release Shanghai-based activist
Chen Jianfang has been subjected to months of enforced disappearance, rights groups say
Police chief detained in China over concern for Uyghurs: report
A police chief in China’s remote Xinjiang region has been detained after expressing concerns over the mass detention of fellow ethnic Uyghurs in his...
Cambodia urged to end wave of opposition arrests
Cambodia’s government has arrested dozens of opposition officials and supporters in a stepped-up crackdown on dissent, ahead of a prominent opposition leader’s return from...
Outcry after Pakistan bars media watchdog member
Rights groups have demanded Pakistan’s government explain why a member of a leading press watchdog was denied entry to the country, calling the move...
Sri Lanka urged to uphold human rights, as presidential poll looms
Authorities have made slow and limited but important progress when it comes to addressing human rights abuses, rights group says
Protecting international free speech against Beijing’s assault
Hoping market forces will solve China’s extraterritorial violations of free speech is naive
Many ordinary Chinese support Hong Kong pro-democracy protests, dissident says
In their ‘hearts they support Hong Kong’ but they’re too scared to say so
Amnesty alleges beatings in Malaysian death penalty cases
Malaysia has the death penalty for 33 crimes, and executions are mandatory for some including murder, kidnapping and drug trafficking
Xi warns moves to divide China will end in ‘shattered bones’
Notice given as anti-riot police and protesters again clashed in Hong Kong over the weekend
Vietnam activist ‘beaten’ unconscious in jail
The communist state has introduced a controversial cybersecurity law
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