China's top legislature on Thursday voted to adopt the revision to the Prison Law. The major revision, the law's first in three decades, was passed after a third reading at a session of the Standing ...

A group in Kazakhstan have found this out the hard way, after a peaceful anti-China protest cost them their freedom. On April ...

When Guldariya Sherizat staged a protest in Kazakhstan over the arrest of her husband in neighboring China, she did not expect to end up in the dock facing 10 years in prison. But her case came under ...

Hong Kong — Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing, was sentenced on Monday to 20 years in prison in the longest punishment given so far under a ...

Zan's imprisonment highlights the continued repression of independent voices in China and the authorities' intolerance of even symbolic acts of remembrance. This statement was originally published on ...