Hairat Niyaz has been detained since 1 October. He is thought at risk of torture and ill-treatment. Family and friends believe his detention is due to comments ...
The government's increased surveillance, harassment and imprisonment of activists is to prevent them from raising human rights concerns that challenge the authorities ...
Dolkun Isa is being held by the South Korean authorities. If he is deported to China he wouldbe at risk of arbitrary detention, unfair trial, torture and other ...
Zhuang Lu, a woman who works for the legal aid and research organization, the Open Constitution Initiative (OCI, known as Gongmeng in Chinese) in the Chinese capital ...
On the eve of the scheduled trial of Tan Zuoren on charges of “inciting subversion of state power”, Amnesty International urges the Chinese authorities to drop ...
The recent hangings of three men brings the total number of executions carried out in Japan this year to seven, while other countries reject capital punishment.
Human rights lawyer Wang Yonghang, who has represented Falun Gong practitioners, has been held incommunicado since 4 July and reportedly beaten during interrogation ...