Headlines- Sheik Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, the prime minister of Qatar, will visit Tehran on Thursday and meet with several Iranian officials to discuss ways to de-escalate tensions.
- According to a notice on a Treasury Department website, the US has imposed sanctions on the Palestine Action group and designated it as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.
- A huge flash flood in Nepal ravaged villages, killing at least 160 people and leaving hundreds more missing for.
- At least one person was killed and over a dozen people were injured on Wednesday when a person crashed a car into a crowd in the northwest French city of Caen.
- Wildfires that sweft through several Algerian provinces claimed the lives of twelve people..
Tag: China Human Rights
Chinese Student Who Criticized President Xi...
Li Jiabao, who began his studies in Taiwan in February 2019, submitted a petition on Thursday to Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council (MAC), the executive department that handles the island’s troubled relationship with the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing
Scholar Hits Out at China’s ‘Totalitarian’...
Independent journalist Gao Yu said the allegations of “seeking out prostitutes” were irrelevant, and that Xu is being targeted for his critical writings
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.
Chinese Police Formally Arrest Dissident Who...
Liu Jiacai, a rights activist from the Yangtze river city of Yichang who is often targeted by state security police, said he is currently safe at home after being taken out of town for the sensitive June 4 anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre
Chinese Police Target Activists Who Supported...
Xiao’s friend and fellow activist Liao Jianhao told RFA that his family were informed that he is under criminal detention when they went to inquire after him at the police station
State Security Police Raid House Church...
An estimated nine people were detained after state security police and officials from Xiamen’s religious affairs bureau raided a meeting of the unofficial Xingguang Church on Sunday morning, local time
China Holds Filmmaker Who Was Making...
Chen Jiaping, who has also used the name Chen Yong, was detained in early March on suspicion of “incitement to subvert state power,” according to multiple reports
Regulation, Transparency and Scrutiny Key to...
Since 2017, leaders from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have accelerated a decade-long expansion in the regime’s ability to shape narratives about China around the world, Washington-based Freedom House said in its report “Beijing’s Global Megaphone,” with the use of what it called “new and more brazen tactics” by Chinese diplomats, state-owned news outlets, and CCP proxies
Wife of Jailed Chinese Rights Attorney...
Li has previously expressed concern at Wang’s mental state, saying that he had always been known for his clarity of thought and rigorous logic, but that he now seems dazed and anxious, which made her worry that he has been brainwashed
Wife of Disappeared Human Rights Lawyer...
Two years after the disappearance of a prominent human rights lawyer from his home in the northern Chinese province of Shaanxi, his wife says she still has no idea where he is