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.
Russian authorities grounded a Moscow-bound flight to arrest a North Korean diplomat’s wife and son who went missing from the far eastern city of Vladivostok last month, residents in Russia familiar with the case told Radio Free Asia.
Authorities in Hong Kong last week offered a reward of more than $128,000 for information leading to the arrest of eight exiled pro-democracy activists.Henry Ridgwell spoke with Finn Lau, one of those targeted by the reward, close to his new home in London.
Bangladesh is not doing enough to protect Rohingya from increasing violence by armed groups and criminal gangs operating in the refugee camps near the country’s border with Myanmar, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.
The Philippines’ leading human rights alliance lashed out at the government Tuesday for designating four leftist activists as terrorists and said the move was nothing but a “virtual hit list.”
According to a new report, journalists in Ecuador are at increased risk due to threats, letter bombs, and attempted murders.
Chinese authorities in Tibet have intensified monitoring of Tibetans, and continue to interrogate them in the regional capital Lhasa to prevent communication with people outside of Tibet, RFA has learned.