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UN rights chief @volker_turk condemns “abominable” surge in executions by Iran. The hanging of Yousef Mehrdad & Sadrollah Fazeli Zare for “apostasy” on social media

🇷🇺 Russia designated a LGBT human rights group and an anti-corruption foundation as “foreign agents.” We urge the @UN_HRC to speak out.https://t.co/zuq0DlLMjp — UN Watch

Sun Qian has been trapped behind bars in China for over five years. She's been tortured, coerced to sign false confessions and forced to renounce

Next month marks Alexey Pichugin's 20th year in prison. He worked for Russia’s Yukos oil company. Putin arrested him to launch his campaign against Yukos

🇮🇷 The Islamic Regime in Iran executed 10 people across the country on May 3, while seven others face imminent execution after being transferred to

🇨🇳 China is ramping up its campaign against foreign journalists with a special big-data-powered alert system that can single out reporters who travel to the

🇨🇳 China stepped up its use of exit bans against human rights defenders and their families and expanded legislation authorizing their use to anyone under

Note: this U.N. resolution only mentioned Russia's aggression in passing, and in a rare move even China voted for it. So those listed below should

LIST OF SHAME: States voting NO on a resolution citing Russia's aggression against Ukraine:🇧🇾 Belarus🇳🇮 Nicaragua🇰🇵 North Korea🇸🇾 Syria Abstain/Absent:🇧🇴 Bolivia🇨🇺 Cuba🇪🇷 Eritrea🇮🇷 Iran🇮🇶 Iraq🇳🇦

🇨🇳 China slashed the democratically-elected seats to only 20% for local Hong Kong elections. Only 88 seats in November’s race will be elected by the

Meet Dr. Wang Bingzhang. He was the first Chinese citizen to earn a Ph. D. in North America, at McGill in Montreal. Then he founded

🇨🇳China banned Muslims younger than 60 in the Xinjiang region from praying at mosques and even in their own homes during the religious holiday of

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