A Tibetan writer  has been sentenced to four years in jail by a Chinese court in eastern Tibet. Kalsang Tsultim, also known as Gyitsang Takmik, was...
Tibet: Writer imprisoned
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Vietnam: Journalist who exposed corruption arrested
Vietnamese journalist Nguyen Van Khuong was arrested this week on suspicion of bribery after he ran an expose on corruption among traffic police in...
India: Anti-corruption cartoon website suspended
Cartoons Against Corruption, the website of Indian cartoonist Aseem Trivedi has been suspended by its internet host after complaints that it...
Chinese dissident lawyer held in Xinjiang, brother says
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...
Burma: Film festival to test promised freedom
A film festival featuring Burma’s leading artists and dissidents will test the regime’s commitment to reform. Wei Mar reports
Burma: Film festival to test promised freedom
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...
China: activist jailed for nine years for “subversive writing”
Chinese pro-democracy activist Chen Wei has been sentence to nine years' imprisonment for inciting subversion over four essays he wrote and...
Malaysian professor resigns after threatened for criticising monarchy
An outspoken professor of constitutional law has resigned his post in the university after being investigated by police and received death threat...
Thai royalists demonstrate against US remarks on lese majeste
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....
China: Human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng sent back to prison
Chinese state media reported on Friday that human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng will be sent to prison for three years for violating his probation...
Thailand: Political activist gets 15 years jail under lèse-majesté
Despite mounting public criticism on lèse-majesté, Thailand's Criminal Court sentenced Red shirt activist Daranee Charncherngsilapakul, widely known...
Is China using censorship to sculpt national sentiment?
Is China’s foreign policy shaped by national public opinion or is the government shaping public opinion to justify its foreign policy? An...
