Uyghur Tribunal Hears Grim Accounts of Rape And Torture in China’s Xinjiang — Radio Free Asia
Witnesses and experts provided grim testimony about torture, rape, and other human rights violations in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous ...
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Uzbekistan’s Development of National Preventive Mechanism against Torture
As part of the implementation of Uzbekistan’s Action Strategy, which marked the beginning of a new stage of democratic ...
Myanmar Poet Called Voice of Resistance Dies Under Torture — Radio Free Asia
A Myanmar poet known for writing verse supporting the resistance movement against the ruling military junta died less than ...
Cambodian Officials Promise Investigation Into Death in Custody Amid Torture Claims — Radio Free Asia
Cambodia’s National Committee Against Torture is promising to investigate the death in custody of a young detainee whose body ...
Family of Detained Chinese Rights Lawyer Turned Away After Making Torture Complaint — Radio Free Asia
Authorities in the northern Chinese province of Shaanxi have rejected an official complaint from family of detained rights lawyer ...
Myanmar Police Take Unyielding Detainees in Handcuffs For ‘Beatings And Torture’ — Radio Free Asia
Shwe Yamin Htet, 17, and her mother Sandar Win were arrested by Myanmar security forces on April 14 in ...
‘Save Nourizad’: Iranians launch hashtag to protest ‘torture’ of prominent dissident
Iranians launched a hashtag on Twitter on Wednesday to raise awareness about the state of a prominent dissident in ...
Chinese Political Prisoner Dies Amid Suspicion of Torture, Mistreatment — Radio Free Asia
A Chinese political prisoner jailed after he publicly supported the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong has died at the ...
Chinese Rights Lawyers Incommunicado After Filing Torture Complaint — Radio Free Asia
Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Yu, who was honored by the U.S. as an International Woman of Courage (IWOC) ...
US citizen held for 3 years in Iran tells of ‘psychological torture’: I was a ‘pawn’
Xiyue Wang, a US citizen who had been held in Iran for three years on spying charges, told Al ...