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A prominent Uyghur poet and associate professor at a teacher’s college was detained in 2017 as a “threat to social stability” and sentenced to 13 years in prison on a “separatism” charge, a local police officer and Uyghur source told RFA
New President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday shot down calls from human rights groups for the Philippines to rejoin the International Criminal Court, saying the country could conduct its own investigations into deaths related to his predecessor’s drug wars ¹
The wife of a Chinese dissident from the northwestern region of Xinjiang jailed for subversion after standing up for Uyghurs says she has received what could be a forcibly written letter from him, prompting fears of “extreme persecution” in prison
According to the UN refugees agency, more than 160,000 people have been displaced as a result of clashes between the army of the DemocrAccordingatic Republic of the Congo and the rebel group M23 this year
Xu Qin, a key figure in the China Rights Observer group founded by jailed veteran dissident Qin Yongmin, is now using a wheelchair while in a police-run detention center in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu, RFA has learned
Thailand has moved dozens of Uyghurs from around the kingdom to a single facility in Bangkok, a security official confirmed Wednesday, raising fears among NGOs that the government may deport them to China after three detainees escaped earlier this month
Malaysia’s parliament on Tuesday reinstated a controversial provision of a law that empowers authorities to hold suspects for up to 28 days without charge for alleged national security offenses, despite strong resistance from opposition lawmakers
Uyghurs prisoners in Xinjiang are forced to speak in Mandarin and perform obvious displays of subservience to their Chinese guards in monthly video calls with relatives, Uyghurs living in exile say
Regional director for Amnesty International Erwin van der Borght commented on reports that Myanmar’s military authorities had carried out executions for the first time since the late 1980s,“These executions amount to arbitrary deprivation of lives and are another example of Myanmar’s atrocious human rights record. The four men were convicted by a military court in highly secretive and deeply unfair trials”
During his six-year presidency, former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war resulted in thousands of killings. Even while his campaign has received criticism abroad, he remains popular at home. However, baristas at a little coffee shop near to the nation’s capital share stories about people killed in the crackdown