Human Rights

A free Liu Xiaobo will be less of a headache for Beijing

1 Mar 2013

Communists are supposed to be unsentimental realists who care only about outcomes and results. So even judging by the ethics-free standard of pure realpolitik, the jailing of dissident and Nobel...

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Vietnamese journalist fired after commentary about party chief

28 Feb 2013

Vietnam's government has asked its citizens to debate planned revisions to the country's constitution. But when journalist Nguyen Dac Kien weighed in on his blog, he discovered the limits of its...

China petition urges human rights reforms

27 Feb 2013

More than 120 influential scholars, lawyers and journalists have signed a petition urging the National People’s Congress to ratify an international human rights treaty as part of the leadership’s...

Nobel laureates urge China to release Liu Xiaobo

27 Feb 2013

More than 140 Nobel laureates led by Archbishop Desmond Tutu urged China on Wednesday to release Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, a rights activist jailed for subversion since 2009.

Non-believers face 'extensive global discrimination', UN told

27 Feb 2013

Atheists, humanists and freethinkers face widespread discrimination around the world with expression of their views criminalised and subject in some countries to capital punishment, the United...

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India's secret hanging of terrorist angers family, worries activists

Mohammad Afzal Guru had been hanged in secrecy in a faraway jail in New Delhi. A government letter informing them of the imminent hanging arrived at their home in Kashmir two days after he was...

Legal experts call for unified screening of foreigners seeking sanctuary in HK

The Law Society and the Bar Association have lambasted Hong Kong's system of using three different tests to screen foreigners seeking sanctuary, saying a unified approach would work better. In...

Naked street beating concerns New Jersey mayor Cory Booker

Three people have been arrested in Newark, New Jersey, on charges of stripping a young man naked in a street and thrashing him with a belt while filming the incident for an internet video.

Tibetan new year photos from Lhasa

Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser shares some photos taken yesterday at the beginning of Losar, the Tibetan new year festival.

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HUMAN RIGHTS

At HKU, students from Myanmar raise awareness of strife at home

Htoi Awng and two other Kachin students in Hong Kong shared their experience at a fundraising concert for Kachin refugees last week, raising over HK$5,000 for the Relief Action Network charity.

China to compensate woman for detention in old morgue

China will compensate a woman who was held in a disused morgue as punishment for going to Beijing to petition against her husband’s jailing, state media said on Friday.