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Vietnam: Ex-Political Prisoner Faces New Charges (HRW)

The Vietnamese authorities should immediately release the human rights activist Do Nam Trung and drop all charges against him, Human Rights Watch said today. Do...

Chinese Authorities Double Down on Tibetan Reincarnations (Sophie Richardson, HRW)

In late November, a senior local Chinese Communist Party official toured three townships in Sog, a county in the Tibet Autonomous Region that has a history of...

Date Set For Hearing On Liquidation Of Moscow’s Memorial Rights Center (RFE RL)

The Moscow City Court has ruled that hearings on a prosecutor's request to shut down one of Russia's oldest rights watchdogs, the Memorial Human...

Envoy To Belarus Says Release Of All Political Prisoners Remains Goal Of U.S. Sanctions Policy (RFE RL)

The unconditional release of all political prisoners in Belarus remains the top goal of the United States, the U.S. special envoy to Belarus, Julie...

Crackdown In Belarus Among Reasons Behind Record Number Of Journalists Behind Bars (RFE RL)

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says 488 journalists and media workers were detained around the world as of December 1, the highest number since the...

Kazakhstan Tightens Security To Prevent Mass Protests On Independence Day (RFE RL)

Security measures have been beefed up in Kazakhstan's largest city, Almaty, to prevent mass protests as the country marks the 30th anniversary of independence. Almaty's...

Ethiopia arrests Associated Press freelance journalist (Al Jazeera)

Police in conflict-hit Ethiopia have arrested a freelance video journalist working for The Associated Press (AP), the United States news agency and state media...

Separatists’ attacks in Cameroon ‘devastating’ for education: HRW (Al Jazeera)

Separatist fighters in Cameroon have carried out systematic and widespread attacks against students and teachers in the country’s conflict-hit Anglophone regions, with a “devastating impact” on...

Mapping the world’s oil and gas pipelines (Mohammed Hussein, Al Jazeera)

Over the past 50 years, the world’s annual energy consumption has nearly tripled – from 62,949 terawatt-hours (TWh) in 1969 to 173,340 TWh in 2019. For centuries,...

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