Story Archive
2008-08-01
Key rights advocates and social activists across China will spend the Olympics confined to their homes under round the clock surveillance. Some have been warned off talking to the media, while others cannot be reached by phone.
2008-07-31
The Czech Republic gives temporary safe haven to a group of North Korean asylum-seekers.
2008-07-30
Updated on August 1 - China confirms that foreign journalists working out of Olympics press facilities won't have unfettered Internet access, although some sites appear to have been unblocked following international news coverage.
2008-07-29
Cambodia's ruling party claims an election victory, but the opposition says voting was rigged.
2008-07-29
Cambodia's ruling party claims an election victory, but the opposition says voting was rigged.
2008-07-28
Authorities in China sentence a teacher who criticized the construction in quake-hit schools to one year in a labor camp, his wife says.
2008-07-25
Chinese citizens hoping to lodge complaints about alleged mistreatment or injustice at the hands of local officials are being tricked into filling in a form at government offices in Beijing and then taken to detention centers to await escort back home.
2008-07-23
Chinese authorities in Gulja, which saw an armed crackdown on protests in 1997, are raiding homes in a security campaign they say is aimed at the country's huge migrant population but which activists abroad say targets minority Muslim Uyghurs.
2008-07-21
Authorities in the central Chinese province of Hubei send a prominent cyber-activist serving a suspended sentence back to jail. Meanwhile, in neighboring Hunan, veteran labor activist Zhang Shanguang vows to continue his human rights work following his release from a 10-year prison sentence.
2008-07-17
Three Burmese women who went to work legally in Malaysia are now being held in one of the country's notorious immigration jails after they lodged a complaint of mistreatment and sexual harassment against a co-worker.
2008-07-16
An unremarkable South Korean village is home to a little-known cemetery for North Korean war dead.
2008-07-15
Bereaved parents who lost children when their schools collapsed in the May 12 earthquake in Sichuan have vowed to continue their legal battle after officials refused to publish results of an investigation. Many parents have now signed a compensation deal offered by the government.
2008-07-12
As Cambodia's election campaign heats up, a journalist linked to the opposition is killed along with his son.
2008-07-12
As Cambodia's election campaign heats up, a journalist linked to the opposition is killed along with his son.
2008-07-12
As the Olympic torch makes its way north to Beijing, authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong boost security around the home of a jailed family planning activist.
