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Jan 11 2013 9:22AM
[CHRD] Police Retaliate Against Protesters as Southern Weekly & Propaganda Officials Reach Apparent Compromise

China Human Rights Briefing January 11, 2013 Freedom of Expression Reprisals Against Protestors Underway in Shadow of Southern Weekly Compromise With Propaganda Officials Police have rounded up protesters and other supporters of press...

Jan 11 2013 7:23AM
[CHRD] Revised Law in Action: Activist Subjected to Enforced Disappearance; Xinjiang Court Sentences Seven for Religious Activit

China Human Rights Briefing January 4-10, 2013 Contents Enforced Disappearance • Revised Law Permitting Enforced Disappearance in Action: Activist Zhu Chengzhi Held Under “Residential Surveillance” in Unknown Location Freedom of...

Jan 9 2013 1:13PM
Introducing One For Ten - ten stories of death row exonerees

For every 10 people executed in the US, one death row inmate is released after being found innocent. These exonerees have spent an average of 10 years on death row. I've been making films about the death penalty for some time now, and...

Jan 6 2013 8:19PM
Good News: Child released without charge in Bahrain

Mohammad Mohammad ‘Abdulnabi ‘Abdulwasi, a sixteen year old Bahrani child who was held in detention in an adult prison has been released without charge. He was initially transferred from Dry Dock prison, north-eastern Bahrain, to a...

Jan 6 2013 12:45AM
Sudan: Indiscriminate killing and sexual assault of young girls

Since June 2011, conflict between the Government of Sudan and the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army-North (SPLA-N) has been raging in Sudan's Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile states. The conflict which commenced following disputed...