High Peaks Pure Earth has translated extracts from a poem by Dawa Dorje titled “Treaty on Man” (མི་ཡི་བསྟན་བཅོས་). According to the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, Dawa Dorje, a writer in his 20s, has been detained since...

Below is Mansoureh Behkish ; a woman in her 60s. She is one of the oldest women's rights campaigners who had lost 6 members of her family in the 1980s massacres in the Iranian prisons. Eversince she had been in and out of prison on...

Mansoureh Behkish, women's rights activists and member of Iran's Mourning Mothers, a woman who had lost 6 members of her family to the bloody revolution, is sentenced to 4 years imprisonment for her recent activities. A worldwide...

(Chinese Human Rights Defenders, April 10, 2012) – Today, Beijing human rights activist and legal advocate Ni Yulan (倪玉兰) was convicted of the crimes of “creating a disturbance” and “fraud” and sentenced to two years and eight months...

Chen Xi (陈西, born 28 February 1954), a freelance writer and human rights activist from Guizhou, is currently serving a 10-year imprisonment in Xingyi Prison, Xingyi City, Guizhou Province. Chen previously served three years in prison...