Photo Courtesy of The Guardian Russian authorities increasingly imprison political opponents in psychiatric hospitals. The practice of systematically sectioning dissidents was increasingly used after the illegal annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and has recently registered a considerable surge. Even though this and other gross human rights violations against Crimean Tatars...
Photo Courtesy of The Guardian Russian authorities increasingly imprison political opponents in psychiatric hospitals. The practice of systematically sectioning dissidents was...
Photo by @rod Flickr Since the declaration of state of emergency in October 2016, Ethiopia has been imprisoning tens of thousands of dissidents. The recent arrest of 16 activists...
A few Tibetan bystanders who witnessed the self-immolation of Pema Gyaltsen on 18 March 2017 have been put into custody by Chinese police. These arrests have to be added to the detention of ten other Tibetan,...
The Trump administration’s executive order barring access to the US for citizens from Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya, Iran and Somalia, has had the collateral consequence of banning citizens from the...
Photo courtesy of AINA Following its annexation by ISIS, the possibility of returning to Mosul did not seem likely for Assyrians, who were exiled under threat of death. However, since Mosul has been recovered...
Photo courtesy of Oxfam East Africa, Flickr Survival in Somaliland is at a tipping point, as the sweeping drought lays waste to a majority of the population’s only sources of food – their...
Mr Dolkun Isa, Member of UNPO’s Presidency and General Secretary of the World Uyghur Congress delivered a speech on behalf of UNPO. On 22 March 2017, the European Parliament’s Subcommittee...
Photo courtesy of the BBC In what could be an historic breakthrough for LGBT rights activists in Taiwan, a group of 14 judges in the country’s highest court will deliberate upon the constitutionality...
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