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  • Early on Sunday morning local time, Kuwait's defense ministry announced that an Iranian drone attack had targeted fuel tanks at the country's international airport.
  • US president Trump said he believes Iran is to blame for the attack on the school of Iranian girls.
  • As the conflict with the Iran-backed Hezbollah intensifies, dozens more people have died in Lebanon as a result with major Israeli air and ground operations.
  • On Saturday, Trump visited an air base in Delaware for honorable transfer of six US service members who had been killed in the fighting.
  • After a week of strikes, Israel and the United States had almost complete control of the skies over Tehran, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who declared on Saturday that Israel would continue its fight with Iran "with all our force."

Tag: China Human Rights Violations

September 17, 2021

Tibetan Writer Dies After Eight Years...

Tibetan writer jailed for three years for criticizing Chinese government policies in Tibet died this week in Sichuan’s capital Chengdu after suffering ill health for eight years following his release, Tibetan sources say

September 11, 2021

Taliban Tells China No Sign of...

A shadowy Uyghur Islamic group that China has used as justification for increasingly harsh rule over the Muslim ethnic minority in its far-western Xinjiang region is not present in Afghanistan and won’t be allowed to return, a Taliban spokesman told Chinese state media

September 10, 2021

China Slams Second Session of Uyghur...

China has denounced the second round of a Uyghur Tribunal scheduled to begin Friday in London to investigate whether the government’s alleged rights abuses targeting ethnic Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in its far-western Xinjiang region constitute genocide

September 9, 2021

Retired Parents of Uyghur Activist Confirmed...

The retired parents of a Uyghur activist living in Australia have been in state custody since mid-2018

September 8, 2021

Eight More Tibetans are Arrested in...

Police in western China’s Sichuan province arrested eight more residents of a Tibetan township in Kardze prefecture this month, taking into custody six monks and two laywomen amid a crackdown by authorities on language rights and possession of banned images of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, sources said

September 7, 2021

Ethnic Groups Fear More Repression After...

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s call for ethnic minority groups to put the interests of the nation first has fueled concerns that the government will double down on up its repressive policies against them, analysts said

September 3, 2021

‘When I Found Out What Happened...

Louise Xin is a Chinese-Swedish fashion designer who launched her eponymous Stockholm-based brand in November 2020 as Scandinavia’s first rental-only couture label

September 2, 2021

Journalist-Turned-Rights Attorney Held Incommunicado in China’s...

Rights lawyer Zhou Xiaoyun, who formerly worked as a senior editor at the cutting-edge Southern Metropolis Daily newspaper in Guangzhou, remains incommunicado after being held under “residential surveillance at a designated location (RSDL),” RFA has learned

August 31, 2021

Uyghur Woman, Family Harassed by Authorities...

A Uyghur woman who met with a U.S. official in December to discuss the imprisonment of her sister by authorities in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region has been pressured to stop speaking out about her siblings, while her relatives have been subjected to frequent questioning by police in their hometown

August 25, 2021

Two Jailed After Raid on Early...

Police in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan detained several minors and jailed two members of the Early Rain Covenant Church following a police raid on a gathering in the provincial capital, Chengdu, RFA has learned

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