In China “picking quarrels” is a serious criminal offence that can lead to spending lengthy amounts of time languishing in jail. Last week Amnesty highlighted the plight of human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang who was formally arrested for...

Anyone familiar with the work of Amnesty International will know that in some places criticism of the government can get you into trouble. I nearly fell off my chair last week when I saw that Conor Burns MP had referred Oxfam GB to the...

On the occasion of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's visit to the UK, the following concerns on China's institutional abuses of human rights should be highlighted: Li Keqiang helped cover up AIDS scandal while he was Party Secretary and...

In Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline , the critic and academic miriam cooke (sic) puts the country’s long history of detaining political dissidents into stark perspective. She tells Daniel Gorman: ‘It became clear to me...

(The Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders – June 13, 2014) – Prominent human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang ( 浦志强 ) has been formally arrested after more than a month in detention, charged on June 13 with “creating a disturbance” and...