Apr 28, 2017

Tibet: International Community Calls for Release of Detained Panchen Lama

Photo courtesy of Radio Free Asia:   The international community, including advocacy organisations and international human rights groups, is calling on China to release Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the Panchen Lama identified by the Dalai Lama, who was abducted in 1995 along with his family and has been detained since then in an unknown location. The act of enforced disappearance and the following...

Apr 28, 2017

Tibet: International Community Calls for Release...

Photo courtesy of Radio Free Asia:   The international community, including advocacy organisations and international human rights groups, is calling on China to release Gedhun Choekyi Nyima,...

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Apr 28, 2017

Crimean Tatars: Political Prisoner Ruslan Zeytullaev...

Photo courtesy of Human Rights in Ukraine   On 26 April 2017, Ruslan Zeytullaev, a Crimean Tatar illegally detained for political motives, was sentenced to 12 years of jail by the North-Caucasian...

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Apr 27, 2017

Balochistan: Over 100 Detained by Pakistani Forces...

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Apr 27, 2017

East Turkestan: Beijing Bans Muslim Traditional...

Photo Courtesy of Hong Kong Free Press   The Uyghur community of East Turkestan continues to be oppressed by the Chinese authorities. Recently Beijing has forbidden Uyghurs from giving to new-born...

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Apr 26, 2017

UNPO Stands With Indigenous Protesters Facing...

Photo courtesy of Japan Times/AFP-JIJI    Military police of the Federal District hurled tear gas at thousands of indigenous people in Brasilia, who peacefully protested against what they called...

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Apr 25, 2017

Biram Dah Abeid on TIME’s 2017 List of 100 Most...

UNPO member and anti-slavery activist Mr Biram Dah Abeid has been listed by Time Magazine as one of this year’s 100 most influential people. Being included on this prestigious list clearly is a recognition...

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Apr 25, 2017

Taiwan: China Exerts Pressure to Prevent Participation...

Photo Courtesy of The Wire The World Health Organization’s (WHO) next annual meeting will take place in May 2017 in Geneva. Ahead of the meeting, there are some doubts as to whether Taiwan will...

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