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Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang have detained a dissident who openly supported the Oct. 13 “Bridge Man” anti-Xi Jinping banner protest ahead of the 20th party congress in Beijing, the rights website Weiquanwang reported.
Bangladesh police said Wednesday they were dropping charges against a journalist who was accused of violating the Official Secrets Act by illegally photographing documents on the purchase of Chinese and Russian vaccines.
Police in Beijing have contacted the family of a Chinese student studying in the United States after he expressed support online for the “Bridge Man” protester
The mother of Nika Shakarami, a 16-year-old who died after taking part in anti-government rallies in Tehran on September 20, has accused the Iranian government with “lying” about her daughter’s death in an effort to “exempt themselves.” Nasrin Shakarami, the mother of Nika, claimed in a video message provided on October 6 only to RFE/Radio …
A court in Hong Kong on Friday sentenced a prominent online radio host to two years and eight months in prison for sedition and money laundering, charges he confessed to in a plea deal
Uyghur activists and human rights groups expressed outrage on Thursday over the voting down of a U.S. proposal that the United Nations Human Rights Council hold a debate on a recent report by the body’s rights chief on abuses in China’s Xinjiang region
At least 145 people have died while being interrogated by authorities in Myanmar over the 19 months since the military seized control of the country in a coup, according to an investigation by RFA Burmese
As world leaders congratulated China on its Oct. 1 National Day, protesters gathered in cities around the world to protest against the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s ongoing persecution of ethnic minorities and dissidents
Bangladesh’s new police chief is a U.S.-sanctioned former head of the elite security unit Rapid Action Battalion, which Washington also sanctioned last December saying it was responsible for serious human rights abuses
Concerns are growing that a prominent Chinese rights lawyer — due to be released at the end of a seven-year jail term for subversion — will instead be placed under house arrest ahead of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) congress next month