Prisoners passing their time playing video games frankly sounds a little bit like a luxury that would ordinarily be denied behind bars, but this has been happening in China,where prisoners are being forced to play online games , as...

Highlights 10-Year Sentence for “Inciting Subversion” Issued to Lü Jiaping: CHRD has learned that 70-year-old dissident and military scholar Lü Jiaping (吕加平) was handed a severe 10-year sentence on May 13 after being convicted of...

Yes, it’s true, Eynulla Fatullayev has been freed under presidential pardon . What a rollercoaster of a couple of days! On Tuesday, we launched a twitter action to free Eynulla Fatullayev , the Azerbaijani journalist who has been...

Awards sometimes get a bad rep. If it's (say) Ronnie Wood getting the Lifetime Achievement Award For Consuming Copious Amounts Of Drugs Whilst Being In A Top Stadium Rock Band, then you can kind of see why. (I exaggerate, but you know...

Our Twitter action yesterday for wrongly-imprisoned Azerbaijan journalist Eynulla Fatullayev certainly had an impact in Azerbaijan and here in the UK. Our message to President Aliyev – “Eynulla Fatullayevi Azad et!”, or “Free Eynulla...