Headlines
  • After a migrant boat sank overnight off the coast of Djibouti in northeastern Africa, the United Nations International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported on Sunday that 109 people had died, 80 had survived, and 116 were still missing for.
  • According to Interior Ministry spokesperson Karolina Galecka, police received information about a potential attack against Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, prompting the emergency meeting at the Internal Security Agency's (ABW) Counter-Terrorism Center.
  • The latest attack on Riyadh's King Khalid airport claimed 12 lives and injured 309, according to Saudi Arabia's Civil Aviation Authority.
  • In a statement posted on social media, Saudi military spokesperson Turki Al-Maliki blamed the Iran-backed Houthis for Saturday's fatal attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh.
  • US president Donald Trump stated that he would "take a look" at joining Saudi Arabia in attacking the Houthis and resuming attacks on Iran.
  • Four people died as Storm Isaias moves across the southern United States.
  • A man was hospitalized after he was struck by a vehicle driven by an Immigration Customs and Enforcement agent who was allegedly pursuing him and another man on Saturday in Houston, Texas.
  • More than a week after her botched execution in Tennessee, Christa Pike was discharged from the hospital and returned to prison.

Tag: Human Rights Issue

July 1, 2022

Taiwan Activist Lee Ming-Cheh Says World...

Taiwanese NGO worker Lee Ming-Cheh was released from Chishan Prison in the central Chinese province of Hunan on April 15 after serving nearly five years for “attempting to subvert state power.”  

June 2, 2022

Officials Open Mosques in Xinjiang Cities...

Officials in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region opened long-closed mosques in the two cities visited last week by the United Nations human rights chief to give the appearance of normalcy despite a severe crackdown on the religion and culture of Muslim Uyghur residents, local police officers and government officials said

July 16, 2021

Police in China’s Sichuan Formally Arrest...

Authorities in the southwestern province of Sichuan have formally arrested a prominent rights activist on suspicion of “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble,” a charge often used to target peaceful critics of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), RFA has learned

July 6, 2021

Remembering Father Stan Swamy,the Indian Jesuit...

The Indian Jesuit Stanislaus Lourduswamy, better known as Father Stan Swamy, arrested. He was accused of crimes related to terrorism and subversive activities, passed away yesterday, July 5, in a hospital in Mumbai, in the west of India

June 23, 2021

Nations, Lawmakers Urge UN Investigation Into...

An alliance of 40 countries led by Canada called on China on Tuesday to allow the U.N.’s human rights chief access to the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) to look into reported abuses of ethnic Uyghurs, including arbitrary detentions, torture, and forced labor

May 28, 2021

Xinjiang Authorities Detain Uyghur Woman Who...

Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have detained a woman in an internment camp on suspicion of “religious extremism” after she intervened in a domestic dispute between her neighbors, according to authorities.

May 11, 2021

No Religion in Tibetan Schools, China...

Parents of Tibetan schoolchildren may no longer carry rosaries, prayer wheels, or other religious items onto school grounds, Chinese authorities in one Tibetan county say, as China continues to enact policies wearing away at Tibetans’ distinct cultural identity

May 8, 2021

Family of Detained Chinese Rights Lawyer...

Authorities in the northern Chinese province of Shaanxi have rejected an official complaint from family of detained rights lawyer Chang Weiping, who is currently under investigation for “subversion of state power” after he attended a December 2019 gathering of dissidents in the southeastern city of Xiamen

April 30, 2021

Human Rights Concern in Saudi Arabia

According to a new study by the US State Department, there are credible reports of “hundreds” or “thousands” of Saudi political prisoners, including inmates who have allegedly been held without charge for long periods of time

Mosque in Xinjiang’s Ghulja City Repurposed...

Authorities in northwestern China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have leased a mosque in Ghulja (in Chinese, Yining) city to a Han Chinese businessman from the capital Beijing, who turned the place of worship into a tourist hotel, according to sources

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