China Human Rights Briefing July 17 – 24, 2014 Contents Arbitrary Detention Yunnan Activist Gets 6½-year Prison Sentence for Online Speech Special Notice More Than 1,600 Cases of Arbitrary Detention & Torture Tracked Since 2012...

Reading this from North Korea? No? Didn’t think so. The big weird world of the interweb is completely off limits for the average North Korean. In many countries, a blog like this one would be considered way too risky for public...

I’ve just spoken to a human rights activist working in Gambia. Just publishing his name would be enough to get him arrested. His powerful testimony shows why we urgently need to act to stop the intimidation of people working to uphold...

Have you got a minute? Or 67 minutes to be precise? Put them to good use because today is a special day. It is Nelson Mandela International Day, now in the official UN calendar. It marks his birthday – and makes a call to action to...

China Human Rights Briefing July 10 – 17, 2014 Contents Arbitrary Detention Guangdong Activist Said to Be Secretly Sentenced to 4 Years for “Inciting Subversion” Enforced Disappearance Tibetan Monk Disappeared After Being Seized in...