Human Rights

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  Human Rights

  2021-02-24

  China increasing prosecution, lengthening sentences of Uighur Muslims

  Those locked up in Xinjiang's prisons are 'ordinary people convicted for going about their lives and practicing their religion', according to Human Rights Watch.

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  Human Rights

  2021-02-22

  China deems Xinjiang rape, abuses as 'shining examples' of progress

  China's foreign minister declared at the UN that his country's systematic abuses of Muslims, which include gang rape, show Beijing's commitment to human rights progress.

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  Human Rights

  2021-02-19

  Migrant workers under no illusion about renewed Russian 'hospitality'

  During the pandemic, Russia abandoned Central Asian migrants. Now with an acute worker shortage, Russia is easing entry requirements and promising better treatment. No one is buying it.

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  Human Rights

  2021-02-18

  Kyrgyz government takes steps to address growing incidence of domestic violence

  Kyrgyzstan registered about 3,000 more cases of domestic violence in 2020 than in the previous year, but the current law protects abusers rather than victims, activists say.

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  Human Rights

  2021-02-15

  Exiled children of the Gulag fight for justice over Stalin-era crimes

  Supporters of the plaintiffs say the Russian government is trying to skirt the thorny issue of Stalinist terror -- a period of history that Russian authorities often ignore.

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  Human Rights

  2021-02-12

  Muslim women recount China's campaign of systematic rape in Xinjiang

  One victim described witnessing a gang rape of a young woman whom camp staff brought before dozens of other detainees. Policemen took turns raping her in front of everyone.

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  Human Rights

  2021-01-12

  China spins population drop in Xinjiang to fit counter-extremism narrative

  Muslim women in Xinjiang are 'no longer baby-making machines' thanks to the eradication of extremism, Chinese diplomats say. Forced sterilisation is at play, reply independent researchers.

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  Human Rights

  2021-01-11

  Film about Kazakh famine in the running for an Oscar

  The filmmakers set out to depict the horrors of the Stalin-induced famine of the 1930s through real stories of survivors.

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  Human Rights

  2021-01-07

  Russia, China spin election strife in US to justify domestic oppression

  The regimes eagerly jumped on the news of electoral problems in the United States, but their reactions and attempted manipulations further exposed their human rights failures.

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  Human Rights

  2021-01-06

  Beijing attempts to extinguish flame of democracy with mass arrests in Hong Kong

  Chinese security forces rounded up dozens of opposition figures in what is deemed as 'the largest single attack upon democracy in Hong Kong yet'.