Wang Xiaoning (王小宁，pen name: Shi Cheng, Chen Ping, Tiandi Pingshu), an engineer and freelance writer who was arrested in 2002 for “inciting subversion of state power”. He is currently serving his 10-year sentence in Beijing No 2 Prison...

Channel 4 shows Unreported World on Friday 13 April 2012. The report this time comes from Sudan and may show why George Clooney was willing to get arrested to draw attention to what is happening there. You can get an idea from this...

Nurmuhemmet YASIN (born 6 March 1974), a Freelance Uighur writer of the Uighur-language Kashgar Literary Journal, is currently serving a 10-year imprisonment in Urumqi No.1 Prison, Urumqi City, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region...

As I write this the dedicated human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja is lying, close to unconscious, in Bahrain’s Military Hospital. Unless the Bahrain authorities act quickly it is highly likely that he will die there. His journey...

Dolma Kyab (born in 1976), a writer and history teacher arrested in 2005 at the middle school where he was employed. He was tried in secret by the Lhasa Intermediate People’s Court and was sentenced to ten and a half years in prison...