National May 17, 2021
Myanmar prisoners harshly interrogated, says Japanese journalist
After nearly four weeks in a Yangon jail, Yuki Kitazumi said he would work from Japan to help Myanmar return to democracy.
Asia Pacific May 16, 2021
Myanmar teen describes junta's brutal treatment of detained women
Beaten, kicked in the groin and threatened with sexual violence — a young Myanmar teenager detained by the junta's security forces has described the treatment suffered by some women and girls behind bars. Ma Chaw, 17, and her mother were arrested on April 14 in ...
Asia Pacific / Politics Apr 24, 2021
China prosecutes people who posted leaked info on Xi's daughter
In mid-2019, an overseas website posted a face photo, name, address, date of birth, identification card and mobile phone number as being those of Xi's daughter.
Asia Pacific / Crime & Legal Apr 12, 2021
Thirteen "victims of forced confessions broadcast on Chinese television" are urging European satellite operator Eutelsat to reconsider carrying Chinese channels CGTN and CCTV4.
Asia Pacific Nov 20, 2019
U.K. accuses China of torturing ex-Hong Kong consulate worker
The U.K. has accused Chinese authorities of torturing a former employee of the British Consulate in Hong Kong, a move likely to further damage relations strained in recent months by London's gestures of support for pro-democracy protesters in its former colony. The intervention comes after ...
World / Social Issues Nov 6, 2019
Nigerian police have freed 259 people from an Islamic rehabilitation center in the southwestern city of Ibadan, police said on Tuesday, taking the number rescued from abusive institutions since September to nearly 1,500. Images from local TV station TVC taken after the captives were released ...
World Oct 27, 2019
Ex-CIA spy flees from Italy to U.S. fearing for her safety, Italian paper says
A former U.S. spy, pardoned by Italy in connection with the CIA kidnapping of a terrorism suspect in Milan, has fled from Italy to the United States fearing for her safety, Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera on Sunday quoted her as saying. Sabrina de ...
World / Social Issues Oct 15, 2019
Nigerian police rescue 67 from 'inhuman' conditions at Islamic 'school'
Police in northern Nigeria rescued nearly 70 men and boys from a second purported Islamic school where they were shackled and subjected to "inhuman and degrading treatments." The raid in Katsina, the northwestern home state of President Muhammadu Buhari, came less a month after about ...
World / Social Issues Oct 10, 2019
Dozens of people were found on Wednesday in squalid conditions, chained and in cages in a Trinidad and Tobago rehabilitation center run by a religious group for ex-prisoners and drug users, where some were tortured and held for years, police said. Police said in a ...
Asia Pacific Sep 20, 2019
Hong Kong police 'tortured' and beat protesters, Amnesty says
Hong Kong police beat pro-democracy protesters in custody and committed acts that amount to "torture" during recent demonstrations, Amnesty International says in a new report that could fuel further unrest. Police used "unnecessary and excessive force" in making arrests, beat a protester for declining to ...
World / Social Issues Aug 14, 2019
Prominent Saudi women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul has rejected a proposal to secure her release from prison in exchange for a video statement denying reports she was tortured in custody, her family said on Tuesday. Hathloul, along with at least a dozen other women's rights ...
World / Crime & Legal Jul 11, 2019
Against family wishes, Maduro regime buries navy captain who died in captivity of alleged torture
Venezuelan authorities on Wednesday buried the remains of a navy captain who died in military custody last month, despite the opposition of family members who say he was tortured to death and want an independent autopsy. Rafael Acosta was detained in June 21 for alleged ...