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  • Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro, defeated by left-wing incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Brazil.
  • Asserting that "there will not be an attack today," US President Donald Trump has ruled out taking immediate military action against Iran.
  • Iran says that Washington must now "take the necessary actions to extricate" itself from the "quagmire" that the US has entered as a result of its miscalculations in starting the conflict.
  • Over the past six months, US forces have assisted over 3,000 commercial vessels in crossing the Strait of Hormuz, according to US Central Command (CENTCOM).
  • On Sunday, Qatari mediators visited Tehran in an attempt to ease tensions in the area.
  • Israeli forces have raided Hebron, locked down the whole occupied West Bank, and killed at least eight Palestinians in Gaza.

Tag: China Human Rights Violation

January 12, 2021

US Slams Chinese Embassy Tweet Lauding...

Washington has condemned Beijing for a since-removed tweet that sought to justify repressive family planning policies in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) by suggesting they make Uyghur women more independent, prompting calls to shutter China’s embassy and ban its Twitter account

January 2, 2021

Police Detain Guangxi Activist in China’s...

Chinese police have detained a woman in the southwestern province of Yunnan on suspicion of subversion, as part of a crackdown on dissent in the southern province of Guangdong, her associates confirmed Friday

December 31, 2020

Press Freedom China

In a year of declining press freedom amid the global pandemic, China took the lead in media repression

December 11, 2020

‘She Spoke Out For Justice Without...

The authors’ group Independent Chinese PEN Center awarded Geng, who has been bullied and mistreated by fellow prisoners in a police-run detention center, its Lin Zhao Memorial Award, commemorating a Mao-era dissident who was executed after continuing to write in prison using her own blood as ink

China Puts Rights Lawyers, Families Under...

Authorities in the Chinese capital have placed a number of prominent rights lawyers and their families under house arrest on Human Rights Day, RFA has learned

December 1, 2020

Authorities Remove Statue of Uyghur Medicine...

Ghazibay, who lived in present-day Hotan (in Chinese, Hetian) between 460 and 375 B.C., was the author of a famous medical treatise—the modern Uyghur-language title of which translates as “Ghazibay’s Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicines.”

November 27, 2020

Chinese Rights Activist Who Opposed Hong...

Guangzhou-based rights activist Zhang Wuzhou has been subjected to torture in detention after she opposed Beijing’s imposition of a draconian national security law on Hong Kong, according to her son

September 19, 2020

Sichuan Rights Activist Allowed Video Call...

court in the southwestern province of Sichuan handed down a 12-year jail term to Huang, a veteran rights activist and founder of the Tianwang rights website, on July 29, 2019

September 15, 2020

Changsha Rights Defenders Tried in Secret...

Authorities in the central Chinese province of Hunan have secretly tried three non-governmental organization (NGO) workers, family members and rights groups said

July 15, 2020

China’s Tsinghua University Fires Outspoken Lecturer...

Political commentator Wu Qiang, who was also dismissed by Tsinghua for showing public support for the 2014 Occupy Central pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, said that since Xi began an indefinite term in office in March 2018, the ruling party has stepped up a purge of liberal intellectuals from higher education institutions.

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