“This is the legacy of the Gulag”
Human rights advocate and Presidential council for Human Rights expert Vladimir Osechkin has reported freedom of expression violations in penal colony №7 in Tver. Inmates and their relatives appealed...
View ArticleChinese activist Chen Guangcheng escapes house arrest
Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng has reportedly fled to Beijing after a year and a half under house arrest. Chen is one of China’s best-known human rights activist, famous for his campaign against...
View ArticleBlind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng leaves US embassy
Update: the Associated Press has spoken via Skype to a close friend of Chen, Zeng Jinyan, who claims that Chinese officials forced the activist to choose between going into exile alone or staying in...
View ArticleChen Guangcheng asks to leave China with Hillary Clinton
In a day of dramatic developments, the blind Chinese lawyer who left the US embassy in Beijing yesterday has called on Barack Obama to do everything possible to let his family leave China. “I would...
View ArticleWhy I won’t be going to Bahrain next week
The Bahraini government has a funny definition of transparency. Despite flowery invitations made during my last visit to the troubled country, an IFEX-affiliated delegation following up on our trip...
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Playing cat and mouse with China’s censors
The twists and turns in the fate of “barefoot lawyer” Chen Guangcheng have held all in its thrall. Despite the vigilance of web censors, China’s netizens — particularly its social media users — have...
View ArticleChen Guangcheng’s nephew arrested on attempted murder charges
UPDATE: Chen Guangcheng’s relatives have described beatings by local authorities since the activist fled house arrest last month. His brother, Chen Guangfu, father of Chen Kegui was reportedly detained...
View ArticleBahrain reaches verdict in medics case
A Bahraini court today acquitted nine of the 20 medics sentenced last year for treating anti-government protesters and reduced the sentences of nine others. Last year’s sentences, handed down on 20...
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Former Belarusian presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov gets UK asylum
Andrei Sannikov, a former political prisoner from Belarus, has been granted asylum in the UK. Sannikov told the Charter97 website: It was not a simple decision for me. But I had no other choice — other...
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The ASEAN Human Rights Declaration: Light on free speech
On Sunday, the world prepared for President Obama’s first-time visit to the summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). But underneath the press torrent was a lesser-known event: the...
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