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The media mogul has had repeated run-ins with authorities and has vowed to resist rule by the mainlandHong Kong national security police have arrested media tycoon Jimmy Lai under suspicion of colluding with foreign forces. It marks the most high-profi…
Read MoreCourt in Guangzhou announced Xu Weihong’s penalty and said an alleged accomplice had been given a life sentenceChina has sentenced a third Canadian citizen to death on drug charges amid a steep decline in relations between the two countries.A court in …
Read MoreThe teenager’s violent death has inspired a broader movement against PNG’s endemic domestic abuseFor six full days 19-year-old Jenelyn Kennedy suffered. Her legs and arms were chained, witness statements to police say, her mouth gagged.They allege she …
Read MoreExpats say they feel insecure about living somewhere ‘where the walls have ears’ • Australia’s Hong Kong intervention was hardly strident but that didn’t matter to ChinaAustralian expats in Hong Kong are feeling jittery about their future after Beijing…
Read MoreProtective measures taken and social media erased as both question how they can operateJournalists and lawyers in Hong Kong are scrambling to adapt as Chinese authorities set up the apparatus to enforce a controversial national security law, including …
Read MoreHomemade device attached to vehicle caused explosion in Afghan capital, says employerTwo employees of Afghanistan’s human rights body have been killed in a bomb attack in Kabul.The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission said the workers died w…
Read MoreICC president condemns US visa restrictions on officials in Afghan war investigation The president of the international criminal court has accused the US of acting unlawfully by threatening an economic and legal offensive against the institution follow…
Read MoreOttawa’s refusal to swap Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou for detainees Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor means it faces some hard choicesFor more than 560 days, comforted only by a small collection of books and meals of boiled rice in Chinese jail cells, two Can…
Read MoreEuropean Union says Yu Wensheng’s right to a fair trial was not respected and also calls China national security laws in Hong Kong an ‘assault’ on freedomThe EU has demanded the immediate release of a Chinese human rights lawyer sentenced to four years…
Read MoreSpying charges against former diplomat and businessman are seen as retaliation for Canadian arrest of Chinese telco chiefChinese prosecutors have charged two detained Canadians with alleged espionage, in a case that has driven a diplomatic wedge betwee…
Read MoreBusinessman seeks to avoid extradition to India to face allegations of £1bn fraudThe Indian businessman Vijay Mallya is understood to have applied for asylum in the UK in order to avoid extradition to India to face allegations of a £1bn fraud at his de…
Read MoreLess than three years since a crackdown against Rohingya, troops are again accused of war crimes – this time against Rakhine Buddhists Kyaw Thu* waited until night fell before taking his family to the bank of a river not far from their village. While m…
Read MoreCampaigners object to Beijing’s proposed laws against ‘treason and subversion’, which follow months of protestsBeijing’s parliament has announced that it will discuss controversial national security laws for Hong Kong in a dramatic escalation of China’…
Read MoreLawyers say pair were peacefully protesting against Indian citizenship actDelhi police have been accused of slapping two Muslim student activists with “bogus” charges of conspiring to incite the recent riots, the worst religious violence in India’s cap…
Read MoreWang Quanzhang’s wife fears Covid-19 may be used as pretext to keep him under house arrestCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA prominent Chinese human rights lawyer barred from returning home after his prison release two weeks …
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