Headlines- The Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Iran has reportedly been targeted by US military strikes.
- President Trump of the United States called the strikes "large and powerful."
- The US would "regret" the most recent attacks, Iran said.
- The Jordanian military says to have intercepted Iranian missiles in its airspace.
- Over 1,000 people have died as a result of last week's massive flash flood at the Himalayan border between Nepal and China.
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Uyghurs and Tibetans Find Little to...
China’s 50th anniversary of membership in the United Nations, celebrated this week with a speech by President Xi Jinping claiming that Beijing had “blazed a path in human rights development,” has generated more despair than hope for Tibetans and Uyghurs on the receiving end of Chinese policies, advocates said
China Erases Memories of Popular Tibetan...
Chinese authorities are banning public discussion of a popular Tibetan religious teacher six years after his death in a Sichuan prison, removing him from official religious histories and shutting down an online chat group devoted to his memory, Tibetan sources say
Vietnamese Journalist Trang Examined for Health...
Award-winning Vietnamese journalist and rights activist Pham Doan Trang has been examined for health problems suffered in detention following appeals made to authorities by her defense team, her lawyer said in a posting on Facebook this week
Uyghur Doctoral Student Arrested by Xinjiang...
A Uyghur doctoral student praised in the Chinese media and known in Xinjiang for academic achievements was arrested by authorities from the far-western region in April while attending university in Guangzhou, a source familiar with the situation and school officials told RFA
Jailed Uyghur Scholar Tohti’s 52nd Birthday...
Supporters of jailed Uyghur academic Ilham Tohti marked his 52nd birthday Monday with calls for his release from a life sentence for “separatism” he received for his advocacy work in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region
Death of Detained Uyghur Imam Underscores...
A Uyghur imam who survived 15 years in prison for separatism in northwestern China’s Xinjiang only to die during a two-year stint in an internment camp, raises questions of torture and highlights the abusive nature of the camp system that has drawn accusations of genocide, said Uyghurs with knowledge of the case
Dread Among Tibetans As ‘Butcher of...
The newly appointed Chinese Communist Party (CCP) boss in Tibet, a hardline apparatchik under multiple international sanctions for severe human rights abuses in neighboring Xinjiang, is expected to apply to Tibet’s Buddhists the same harsh policies carried out against the Muslims in Xinjiang, Tibetans and experts said
Report Documents Extensive Grassroots Policing of...
Scores of Chinese government bodies are engaged in an elaborate whole-of-government campaign of repression targeting Muslim Uyghurs in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region, according to report published this week by an Australian think tank
Hong Kong Jails 5 Students as...
A court in Hong Kong on Tuesday handed down jail terms of nearly five years to five students in connection with the siege by riot police of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in November 2019
French Mural of Former Uyghur Detainee...
A mural artist who champions the oppressed has painted a portrait of a former Uyghur survivor of an internment camp on a building in France’s second-largest city to raise awareness of the plight of the persecuted Muslim minority group in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region