Jul 25, 2017

East Turkestan: Uyghurs Forced to Download Spyware to Their Mobile Devices

Photo Courtesy of Mashable   At the behest of Chinese authorities, Uyghurs are now obliged to download spyware to their mobile devices. A new application called Jingwang (Citizen Safety) was developed by Urumqi police forces to counter supposedly terrorist threats. Security forces have already begun checking Uyghurs’ phones to see if the spyware was correctly installed. This new political...

Jul 25, 2017

East Turkestan: Uyghurs Forced to Download Spyware...

Photo Courtesy of Mashable   At the behest of Chinese authorities, Uyghurs are now obliged to download spyware to their mobile devices. A new application called Jingwang (Citizen Safety) was...

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Jul 25, 2017

Barotseland: Activist Freed After Three-Month...

Photo Courtesy of The Barotseland Post Mr Munukayumbwa Munyinda, a Barotse activist, was illegally detained by the Zambian state after he was officially accused of partaking in the burning of a...

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Jul 24, 2017

Tibet: Historic Celebration in Rebgong Revitalises...

Photo courtesy of Radio Free Asia An annual cultural celebration held from 9 July to 20 July in Rebgong County saw a large turnout, signaling a renewal of its community’s participation in Tibetan...

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Jul 24, 2017

Assyria: Crowds Gather to Protest Mayor’s Unfounded...

Photo courtesy of Assyrian International News Agency Assyrians gathered in the town of Alqosh in Iraq’s Nineveh Plains yesterday [23 July 2017] to voice their disapproval of the recent expulsion...

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Jul 20, 2017

Chittagong Hill Tracts: Jumma Activists Unlawfully...

Photo courtesy of Survival International In several recent and consecutive episodes, Jumma villagers and members of the political organisation of the multilingual indigenous Jumma people of the Chittagong...

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Jul 20, 2017

Brazil: Indigenous People Occupy Hydroelectric...

Photo courtesy of Mongabay The Munduruku indigenous people began occupying the construction site of the São Manoel hydroelectric dam, which is built on the Teles Pires river in the east of the...

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Jul 20, 2017

House of Lords Conference Highlights Human Rights...

On 19 July 2017, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), together with the World Baloch Organization (WBO), organised the conference “Wall of Silence: Human rights in Balochistan”,...

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