Tag: Human rights
Posting comments on websites in China ‘severely restricted’ by revised rules
Under the new version of the regulations on Internet posts, monitoring of comments on websites will be stricter.
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After 37 years, Filipino Catholic faithful still remember priest disappeared by dictatorship
“If he were with us today, he would surely have the same, or even stronger commitment to help the hungry farmers, poor workers"
Indian Catholics welcome call for independent probe into death of Stan...
Father Cedric Prakash said the resolution “points to the fact” that the death of Father Swamy “was nothing short of ‘institutional murder’”
Women worldwide face sex-based religious persecution
These women, simply because they are women, face horrors from rape and forced marriage to forced birth control and sterilization
Rights groups raise concern over Christians in China even as pope...
“Since the (Vatican-China) deal was reached, things have gone from bad to worse for Catholics in China,” said a women's rights advocate
Singapore conducts two more executions: activists
The latest executions come after the hanging of a mentally disabled man in April sparked widespread international outrage
2,000 Christian, Hindu women, girls kidnapped annually in Pakistan
The International Christian Concern said “persistent advocacy is necessary to influence the Pakistani authorities to change course”
Malaysian to be hanged in Singapore after court dismisses appeal
A judge can commute the sentence to life in prison if the offender acted only as a courier and cooperated with authorities
Tibetans skirt tight Chinese surveillance to mark the Dalai Lama’s 87th...
Previous years have seen arrests in the weeks around the July 6 birthday
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