Amnesty International claimed in a new study released today that the Nepali government is not doing enough to shield Dalits, especially women and girls, from widespread and systemic caste-based discrimination.
Human rights proponents say that since supporters of former prime minister Imran Khan stormed military properties to protest his arrest, political repression in Pakistan has increased.
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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Some 2,000 villagers displaced by two consecutive days of junta airstrikes on a township in Myanmar’s Sagaing region are in dire need of basic necessities after being refused refuge by authorities across the border in India, according to the villagers and aid workers.
Nguyen Van Hai, who blogged under the name Dieu Cay, fought for a free press throughout his life, from his time in a Vietnamese prison to his exile in Los Angeles. He refused to be silenced in his fight for a free press.
When she was just 13, Ngawang Sangdrol was arrested for protesting Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule in Tibet. She spent more than a decade in prison before international pressure led to her release in 2002.
Tearing down tents and destroying a colorful sand mandala, Chinese authorities on Wednesday stopped a gathering where a Tibetan Buddhist lama was scheduled to preach – and tried to block online photos and descriptions of the incident, two Tibetans with knowledge of the situation said.