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A Tibetan activist is again speaking out against language restrictions after spending five years in prison for discussing the issue with Western media, RFA has learned
Rights groups and a former United Nations official issued a final plea for the international community to use the approaching Winter Olympics in Beijing to pressure China to improve its human rights record, amid widespread persecution of Muslim Uyghurs, Tibetans, Hongkongers and other groups
Hong Kong political artist Kacey Wong is planning a new exhibition on the the democratic island of Taiwan, where he has described himself as “exiled” during a citywide crackdown on political opposition and public dissent under a draconian national security law imposed by Beijing
Two Tibetan monks arrested by authorities in western China’s Sichuan province are incommunicado five months after being taken into custody, with family members increasingly worried about their well-being, RFA has learned
A Uyghur post office retiree interned in a detention camp in China’s far-western Xinjiang region in 2018 on suspicion of religious extremism died in December 2021 following his release, Uyghurs and local officials with knowledge of the situation said
A Uyghur historian and editor who was arrested by authorities in Beijing was handed over to police in China’s far-western Xinjiang region, where he has been detained for three years, Uyghur sources and police said
A Paris-based press freedom group has called for the release of award-winning citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, whose family says she is close to death in Shanghai Women’s Prison
In late 2020, a conflict between the Ethiopian Federal government and a local military erupted into a civil war, forcing two million people to evacuate their homes and putting hundreds of thousands in famine-like conditions
A Uyghur woman who had been interned in a detention camp in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region died of a stomach ailment in September 2020 while performing forced labor at a sock factory adjacent to the internment facility, RFA has learned
Authorities in the central Chinese province of Hunan have released primary school teacher Li Tiantian from a psychiatric hospital following a public outcry over her detention, but restrictions on her freedom remain