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...

The Chinese authorities must drop spurious charges against a prominent human rights lawyer and immediately release him, said Amnesty International.

 Pu Zhiqiang was formally arrested yesterday, 13 June, for “picking quarrels” and...

If Rafael Braga Vieira watches the game in his hometown tonight, it’ll be from his prison cell. When the Olympics come to the city in a couple of years, he might be allowed to watch the events in his cell too. And the World Cup after...