Caravanserai

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'.

Human Rights

2021-01-05

China builds more than 100 new detention facilities for Muslims in Xinjiang

Factory buildings inside detention camps in the northwestern region indicate forced labour on a 'vast scale' is taking place, a new report finds.

Human Rights

2020-12-28

China jails journalist for COVID-19 reporting ahead of international virus probe

Just weeks before the World Health Organization is starting the long-delayed investigation into the origins of the coronavirus, Beijing jails another citizen who shed light on the subject.

Human Rights

2020-12-25

Russian bills targeting 'foreign agents' harken back to Soviet-era repression

Observers say the legislation is nothing less than an attempt to blot out independent media and empower the Kremlin to arrest the 'enemies of the people'.

Human Rights

2020-12-22

Chinese tech giants caught helping Beijing track Muslims in Xinjiang

Alibaba, Huawei and other Chinese firms are attempting to distance themselves from Beijing's oppression of Uighurs and other Muslim minorities -- but the evidence of complicity is damning.

Human Rights

2020-12-08

China caught helping authoritarian regimes silence domestic dissent

The China National Electronics Import and Export Corporation (CEIEC) offers a commercialised version of Beijing's 'Great Firewall' that scrubs out politically sensitive material from the internet.