The brother of Chinese dissident human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng has told two news agencies that his brother is now in a Xinjiang prison, being the first confirmation of his whereabouts in 20 months. Gao Zhiyi added that he received a notice last...
A film festival featuring Burma’s leading artists and dissidents will test the regime’s commitment to reform. Wei Mar reports
Burma’s democracy movement leader Aung San Suu Kyi, film director Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi, and former political prisoner and comedian Maung Thura aka Zarganar are pushing the boundaries of prevalent state censorship in the Arts of Freedom Film...
Chinese pro-democracy activist Chen Wei has been sentence to nine years' imprisonment for inciting subversion over four essays he wrote and published online calling for freedom of speech. He was detained in February this year amid an intense...
An outspoken professor of constitutional law has resigned his post in the university after being investigated by police and received death threat for his comments about the Malaysian constitutional monarchy. “I have decided to resign due to the...
A crowd of 200 royalists staged a protest at the United States Embassy in Bangkok on 16 December, accusing it of interfering in domestic affairs. Protesters criticised Ambassador Kristie Kennie for her comments on recent lese majeste prosecutions,...
Chinese state media reported on Friday that human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng will be sent to prison for three years for violating his probation rules. In 2006 Gao was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for "subversion of state power", being...
Despite mounting public criticism on lèse-majesté, Thailand's Criminal Court sentenced Red shirt activist Daranee Charncherngsilapakul, widely known as "Da Torpedo", to 15 years in jail for three offences after rejecting her appeal. She was...
Is China’s foreign policy shaped by national public opinion or is the government shaping public opinion to justify its foreign policy? An interesting new analysis by the Brookings Institute has it that the government is manipulating nationalist...
An urgent appeal from Chinese writer Yan Lianke to the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese Prime Minister Esteemed General Secretary and Prime Minister: I am a writer and a university professor. Before deciding to write...