A Tibetan Buddhist monk imprisoned for sending money for prayer offerings to be made to the Dalai Lama and the abbot of India’s Kirti Monastery has been released from jail but remains in poor health, according to two sources in Tibet familiar with the situation.
For the first time during a continual war, the human rights organization Amnesty International has accused Israel of committing acts of genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza.
Prominent Chinese dissident Xu Zhiyong, jailed after penning an open letter calling on President Xi Jinping to step down, has ended his hunger strike in prison, according to social media reports from people close to his family.
Myanmar’s air force bombed a church where displaced people were sheltering near the border with China killing nine of them including children, days after the junta chief reiterated a call for peace talks, an insurgent group official told Radio Free Asia.
West Bank Palestinians are suffering, while others in Gaza are in verge of starvation. The entire West Bank economy is collapsing, and they are unable to find employment in Israel. Reporting from Ramallah in the West Bank is Linda Gradstein.
A group of North Korean defectors based in Seoul launched a news website with the aim of exposing North Korean human rights abuses.They also want to provide a more nuanced perspective about their homeland.
Civilians across Myanmar on Tuesday commemorated the 35th anniversary of a significant uprising as they held protests against the ruling military junta dictatorship amid heightened security measures imposed by the regime, activists said.
Bangladesh’s cabinet has approved a proposal to dilute the Digital Security Act, a minister said Monday about the law that critics worldwide have lambasted for its use to silence dissent, imprison critics and repress a free media.
A Tibetan writer who wrote a book that criticized Chinese rule in Tibet has been released from prison after serving a four-year sentence for “creating disorder among the public,” a Tibetan source told Radio Free Asia.
Locals say the group has been held for 5 days. By RFA Burmese Junta troops have detained 17 civilians from a village in Myanmar’s southernmost Tanintharyi region, locals told RFA Wednesday. They said the 12 women, two men and three children were arrested five days ago as they returned to the village in Kyunsu township …
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