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14 January 2009
Authorities in Shanghai detained a prominent female activist on Monday and assigned her to seven days administrative detention.
13 January 2009
In a recent effort to clean up 'vulgar' internet content, the Chinese
authorities have targeted many other sites including MSN, Baidu and Google.
23 December 2008
After more than 14 days in detention, it appears that Chinese
authorities intend to seriously prosecute the dissident literary
scholar, Liu Xiaobo.
17 December 2008
The European Parliament has honoured a jailed Chinese dissident in absentia with its top human rights award.
24 November 2008
The Kuala Lumpur High Court acquitted a prominent migrant workers' rights activist on Monday.
13 November 2008
Fourteen dissidents are sentenced to 65 years' imprisonment each, as Myanmar's military government ignores calls by
the international community to clean up its human
07 November 2008
Judge rules that the arrest of Raja Petra Kamarudin, under the Internal Security Act, was unconstitutional.
03 November 2008
Pakistan is still suffering from the abusive policies put in place one
year ago Monday, when General Pervez Musharraf unlawfully declared a
state of emergency.
05 September 2008
The sole reason for the detention of five members of Hindu Rights Action Force, was for expressing concerns about the marginalization of ethnic South
Asians within Ma
02 September 2008
Amnesty International urges the Thai government to respect human rights and to remove restrictions on free speech contained in the emergency decree.
08 August 2008
Twenty years after the brief flowering of people power in Myanmar,
however, little has improved for the millions of people still suffering
under repressive rule.
30 July 2008
The International Olympic Committee has said that there won't be uncensored internet access at Olympic media venues.
28 July 2008
Foreign journalists working from the Olympics press centre in Beijing are unable to access amnesty.org, as Amnesty International prepares to launch a new report evalua
23 July 2008
The Chinese authorities say they will now not free the housing rights activist when his four-year prison sentence expires on 26 July. Amnesty International demands he
17 July 2008
Amnesty International has launched a new website for people to have
their say about the human rights situation in China in the countdown to
the Beijing Olympics.
02 May 2008
Sri Lanka is a conflict where journalists face unjustified restrictions on reporting and there are very few established facts.
22 April 2008
Nepal's threat to use violence to prevent anti-China protests when the
Olympic torch reaches Mount Everest has been condemned by Amnesty
International.
31 March 2008
Three people in Myanmar were sentenced to prison for giving water to monks on the street.
24 March 2008
Over 400 people were arrested in Nepal on Monday as the authorities clamped down on peaceful demonstrations against Chinese human rights abuses in Tibet.
18 March 2008
While streets in the Tibetan capital are reported to be quiet and empty, there are continued reports of unrest in neighbouring Chinese provinces with large populations
