Amnesty International is urging the Chinese government to launch an independentinvestigation into last year’s riots in the Xinjiang Uighur AutonomousRegion, after new testimony obtained by the organisation has cast furtherdoubt on the...

Why can’t we get a little bit of openness from the Chinese authorities? I know it’s a bit of a Groundhog Day -type question, but it is Friday afternoon and surely I’m allowed to show a bit of frustration! Anyway, why am I asking this...

A few weeks ago we launched an appeal to buy radios for Burma. Our aim was to raise £50,000 – enough money to distribute 4,000 radios in the country. The radios we buy will help amplify independent media so that the people of Burma can...

(ChineseHumanRightsDefenders, July 1, 2010) Fifteenpolice officers raided the Xianghe County, Hebei Province home of humanrightsdefender Li Jinfang (李金芳)thisafternoon,confiscating74 items, including human rights-relateddocuments...

Tory MP Philip Hollobone has tabled a private members' bill which would ban Muslim women from wearing burqas or full-face veils in public places. Reportedly the bill has very little chance of becoming law, as the main parties aren’t...