Overview The human rights situation deteriorated dramatically. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fled crimes against humanity in Rakhine State to neighbouring Bangladesh; those
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Overview The government continued to draft and enact new laws under the guise of “national security” that presented serious threats to human rights.
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Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong on Thursday secretly tried a prominent anti-censorship campaigner on subversion charges after holding him for
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It’s been 15 years since Ajith Debagama Kankanalamage, fled Sri Lanka after a decade of torture and sexual abuse by the military. He thought he was headed to Canada, but he was abandoned by brokers without his passport or money in Hong Kong,
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Five days before a much-anticipated summit between the leaders of the United States and North Korea, 52 nongovernmental organizations and coalitions sent a letter to the North’s ruler Kim Jong Un on Thursday, calling on him to undertake reforms to end serious rights abuses in the repressive, autocratic nation.
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Meanwhile, Amnesty International is accusing European governments of being complicit in the torture and abuse of refugees and migrants in Libya. The NGO says Europe is not only aware of inhumane detention centers in Libya-but says the continent actively supports Libyan authorities …
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Nine non-governmental organizations appeal to the President of the United States, Donald Trump, to intervene in the case of Demei Zou, an asylum seeker of a Chinese Christian new religious movement, The Church of Almighty God, who is detained in Detroit, Michigan and faces deportation to China.
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A mass crack-down in Chinese religious law has led hundreds of people to imprisonment and torture. As their friends and families seek safety, EU Member States are tending to turn them away – writes Lea Perekrests, Deputy-Director, Human Rights Without Frontiers
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