Chinese authorities have detained a young man for unfurling pro-democracy banners this month at an overpass in Chengdu in southwest China – a rare form of public protest that is punishable as a criminal offence, two sources told Radio Free Asia.
Prominent Chinese rights lawyer Lu Siwei, who was arrested and deported from Laos in 2023, was sentenced behind closed doors in China to 11 months in prison on Friday, his wife told Radio Free Asia.
Chinese authorities have interrogated and detained local Tibetans who posted photos and messages online mourning the loss of an influential Tibetan Buddhist leader said to have died while in custody in Vietnam, two sources from the region told Radio Free Asia.
The Tibetan government-in-exile called Tuesday for an independent investigation into the death of an influential Tibetan Buddhist leader said to have died in Vietnam, where he was reportedly in hiding from the Chinese government.
Chinese officials have confirmed the death of an influential Tibetan Buddhist leader who went missing eight months ago shortly after he publicly called for the preservation of Tibetan language and culture, two sources told Radio Free Asia.
For families of Filipinos who were killed in Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody crackdown on illegal drugs, the former Philippine president’s arrest and swift transfer to the International Criminal Court marked a long-awaited step toward justice.
Human rights activists in Bangladesh are raising alarms about extrajudicial killings and other in-custody deaths of suspects recurring since the interim government came to power.
Uyghur historian Tursunjan Hezim, the founder of the Orkhun website, which archived a vast collection of books and materials on Uyghur history before it was shut down by Beijing, was sentenced to life in prison in 2022, a security official at the school where he used to work told Radio Free Asia.
Recent developments in Bangladesh such as “arbitrary arrests and reprisal violence” may undo some vital steps that the interim government has taken to reform the law and order system, Human Rights Watch said in a new report.
Chinese rights lawyer Xie Yang, who has been behind bars without trial for three years on “subversion” charges, has issued a defiant statement to the authorities after they repeatedly extended his detention, saying he ‘won’t bow’ to them.