AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. Public statement. AI Index: ASA 17/022/2009. 13 May 2009. China: Immediately release all recently detained earthquake survivors. ...
In May 2008, an earthquake hit Sichuan province causing massive landslides and buildings to collapse. Official figures put the number of deaths at 69227 with 17923 ...
The ethnic identity of Uighurs in western China is being systematically eroded. Government policies, including those that limit use of the Uighur language, severe ...
Two Tibetans, Losang Gyaltse and Loyar, were sentenced to death on 8 April 2009 by the Municipal Intermediate People's Court in Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet ...
Sichuan environmental activist and writer Tan Zuoren was detained by the police in Chengdu city, Sichuan province on suspicion of “inciting subversion of state ...