Headlines
  • Thirty people have died in a devastating fire at a pub in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, according to reports on Tuesday.
  • Two UAE tankers have been struck in the Strait of Hormuz, according to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
  • On Monday, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said that airstrikes on Iran have started for the third night in a row.
  • On Monday, the UAE Ministry of Defense announced that two Iranian tankers had attacked two national tankers. One Indian crew member was killed and eight others were injured, including four critically, by cruise missiles in the southern lane of the Strait of Hormuz in Omani territorial waters.
  • Despite unleashing fresh attacks on Iran and reimposing a blockade of Iranian ports, US President Donald Trump said on Monday that an deal with Tehran to end the Middle East war was still possible.
  • IRGC spokesman Hossein Mohebbi said in a statement on Monday that Iran will "continue to exercise our sovereignty and management over the Strait of Hormuz."
  • A constitutional amendment was passed by the Hungarian parliament to oust Orban ally President Tamas Sulyok.

Tag: Human Rights

June 11, 2022

Mother of Jailed Chinese Activist Huang...

Pu Wenqing, the mother of jailed rights activist Huang Qi, says her cancer is spreading from her lungs to her liver, and has called on the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to allow her to visit her son in prison before she dies

June 9, 2022

Prominent Tibetan Writer Confirmed Detained After...

Prominent Tibetan writer and scholar Rongwo Gangkar, who went missing more than a year ago, has been confirmed arrested by Chinese authorities, RFA’s Tibetan Service has learned

June 8, 2022

Odhikar Shut Down: Govt Creating ‘Atmosphere...

The Bangladesh government’s intention in shutting down a leading human rights advocacy group, Odhikar, was to create a climate of fear for non-governmental organizations who raise concerns about the rights situation in the country, activists said on Tuesday

Tank Cake Influencer Austin Li ‘Set...

Beauty influencer Austin Li, part of a generation of younger Chinese people who know little of the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen massacre, may have been set up by a rival when he displayed a tank-shaped ice-cream dessert on his livestream, prompting censors to pull the plug immediately, RFA has learnedCrime

June 7, 2022

Families Search For Missing Loved Ones...

Families in Tijuana, Mexico, gather year after year to search for missing loved ones. Fearing the worst, people gather with rods, shovels, and other tools to search for the bodies of those who were in the region and were never seen or heard from again

Tank Cake on Eve of Tiananmen...

Chinese beauty influencer Austin Li, whose livestream was taken off the air after he displayed a tank-shaped cake on the eve of the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre, June 3, 2022

June 4, 2022

China Rounds Up Dissidents,Activists Ahead of...

Authorities in China have ordered dozens of pro-democracy activists and dissidents into house arrest or other forms of restriction ahead of the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre on June 4

June 3, 2022

Jailed Changsha NGO Worker Subjected to...

The wife of one of the Changsha Funeng NGO workers jailed in the central Chinese province of Hunan says he is being subjected to physical abuse and mistreatment in Chishan Prison

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

May 31, 2022

China’s ‘White Guards’ Gain Reputation For...

Police officers, neighborhood committee members and community volunteers dressed in head-to-toe white PPE have been a ubiquitous feature of China’s zero-COVID policy, often shown on social media video uploads surrounding people, beating and dragging them away, or knocking on their door to put pressure on them to submit to a PCR test, to leave home for an isolation camp

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