Arzugul Kadeer, the younger sister of veteran Uyghur rights advocate Rebiya Kadeer, is confirmed to have died one week after her release from an internment camp, according to official sources in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR)
Parents of Tibetan schoolchildren may no longer carry rosaries, prayer wheels, or other religious items onto school grounds, Chinese authorities in one Tibetan county say, as China continues to enact policies wearing away at Tibetans’ distinct cultural identity
Authorities in the northern Chinese province of Shaanxi have rejected an official complaint from family of detained rights lawyer Chang Weiping, who is currently under investigation for “subversion of state power” after he attended a December 2019 gathering of dissidents in the southeastern city of Xiamen
Lawmakers must act to cut U.S. ties to forced labor and expedite asylum for Uyghur refugees, and Washington should push the global community to end what it has designated a genocide in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), witnesses told a Congressional hearing Thursday
A Tibetan father of six died under unclear circumstances after his release from a course of political reeducation in detention Tibet’s Nagchu prefecture two years ago, RFA has learned
Amnesty International said on May 4 that African and other world leaders must speak up and do more to stop the vicious tide of human rights and international humanitarian law abuses in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, which has been raging for six months
Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have detained an ethnic Uyghur couple of longstanding Turkish citizenship, according to their daughter, who said Beijing will not release them because they have witnessed human rights abuses in the region
According to a new study by the US State Department, there are credible reports of “hundreds” or “thousands” of Saudi political prisoners, including inmates who have allegedly been held without charge for long periods of time
As part of their relentless crackdown on the protest movement in Belarus, the authorities are ruthlessly targeting independent labour unions and trampling on workers’ rights, according to Amnesty International
Botswana’s lawmakers recently formed a committee to solve the issue and intend to create a sex offenders register, despite the country’s high and rising rate of rape cases