Authorities in the southern province of Guangdong have jailed the administrator of a wiki-based forum for 14 years after a post revealed personal information about the close family of ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping, RFA has learned
The Indian Supreme Court has validated a complaint filed by a third party against a designer based in New Delhi who published a series of satirical cartoons on the judiciary. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the judges to drop the absurd charges against her
According to Amnesty International, as of May, 2019 Vietnam had in its custody 118 prisoners of conscience. Some have since been released after serving their sentences, but many more have been arrested and detained on similar charges
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of Julian Assange given the worrying increase in cases of Covid-19 contamination in Belmarsh prison, where the founder of Wikileaks, confined in his cell, awaits following his trial.
The police account is controversial to say the least. Freelance journalist Ronnie Villamor was killed by soldiers on Saturday, November 14 around 1:30 p.m. in Milagros, a town in the center of the Philippine archipelago, in a “clash” in which the journalist allegedly unsheathed gun
China’s government has already been censoring politically sensitive words on TikTok, WeChat, and other social media platforms for years, Wangden Kyab, a senior researcher at the Dharamsala, India-based human rights group Tibet Watch
The Kyrgyz State Committee for National Security, or GKNB, said it received assurances from their Uzbek partners that Abdullayev would not be ill-treated. The journalist reported being subjected to physical and torture after his arrest in September 2017
Jimmy Lai , 71, the founder of the Hong Kong pro-democracy daily Apple Daily , was arrested at his home on the morning of August 10, 2020 on charges of “collusion with foreign powers”
Security forces thwarted the July 31 protests against corruption and poverty,arresting Chin’ono and an opposition leader. South Africa is sendingenvoys to Zimbabwe to investigate reports of escalating rightsabuses,which the government denies
Censors at the social media platform Weibo were meanwhile stepping up warnings to platform users that they could be pursued for comments deemed to be “attacks on government departments or state media agencies.”