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Chinese authorities torture Tibetan village head to death amid crackdown o
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
Chinese authorities have wrongfully arrested over 20 Tibetans and tortured Gonpo Namgyal, a Tibetan village head to death after enduring months of severe torture, including repeated electric shock sessions during his detention.
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Uyghur educational activist dies in custody of Chinese authorities
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
A Uyghur intellectual and education advocate, who was detained the night before his daughter's wedding five years ago, passed away just two months later while in Chinese custody.
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China vows to crack down on illicit spycam recordings after rise in hotel
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Following a string of voyeurism incidents in hotels across the country, China's Supreme People's Court has pledged to take action against the illegal recording industry, including the use and sale of hidden cameras. These illicit recordings, which have sparked public concern, are linked to e
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Three Taiwanese nationals arrested in China over I-Kuan Tao religious acti
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Three Taiwanese nationals in their seventies have been arrested by Chinese authorities in Guangdong for participating in a scripture-reading gathering associated with the I-Kuan Tao movement, which is banned by the Chinese Communist Party. Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation has sought assi
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China removes memorials at site of car ramming attack amid public outrage
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
Authorities in Zhuhai, a city in southern China, have removed memorials, including wreaths, candles, and bottles of Chinese alcohol, placed at the site of a deadly car-ramming attack, Al Jazeera reported on Wednesday. The move by the Chinese authorities appears to be an attempt to manage pub
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Chinese authorities refuse to revisit case of jailed Tibetan activist
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
Anya Sengdra, 53, a resident of Kyangchu Township in Gade County in the Golog (Guoluo) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, has spent six years in prison following his 2018 arrest in Qinghai Province.
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Taiwan indicts couple for promoting Chinese political agenda amid military
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
The Voice of America reported that the couple, Chang Meng-Chung and his wife, Hung Wen-ting have been indicted for promoting the agenda after receiving billions of dollars from the Chinese authorities.
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Chinese authorities reportedly intensify crackdown on Tibetan monks and re
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
Chinese authorities have intensified their crackdown on Tibetan Buddhism, forcibly relocating hundreds of young monks from Kirti Monastery to state-run boarding schools in Ngaba County, Sichuan Province. Students face prison-like conditions and are cut off from their families. The crackdown
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China imprisons human rights lawyer couple for trying to meet EU officials
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
Chinese authorities on Tuesday sentenced prominent human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng to three years in prison, while his wife, Xu Yan, received a one-year and nine-month sentence. The couple was detained while attempting to meet with European Union officials in Beijing.
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Tibetan rights group demand China to reveal location of detained monks
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) has urgently called on Chinese authorities to reveal the whereabouts of four Tibetans subjected to incommunicado detention in Ngaba (Aba), located in the Ngaba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province.
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Transnational repression from China threatens diaspora in Japan
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
The Chinese authorities are making attempts to threaten people from China living within Japan who remain critical of the Chinese government. The government's harassment of people from China includes people belonging to East Turkistan, Tibet, and Inner Mongolia.
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China's private tuition ban backfires; fuels underground market, rising co
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
This ban had declared private tuition outlawed on school subjects. However, parents point out that instead of achieving its goal, higher costs due to a shortage of private teachers have raised concerns over the quality of education given to the students in the underground market, which has l
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