Some 55 Uyghur organizations have called on world leaders to recognize Dec. 9 as Uyghur Genocide Recognition Day, marking the day a year ago that an independent U.K.-based Uyghur Tribunal announced its findings that China committed genocide against Uyg…

There will be no immediate replacement for the U.S. ambassador to Myanmar, Thomas Vajda, when he leaves his post this month, with his deputy instead taking over as chargé d’affaires “ad interim.”
The arrangement will allow the United States to maintain…

Their portraits must be framed and hung in every home and public building, in classrooms and subway cars. They are enlarged to epic proportions at great monuments. And whenever anyone is seen in public, law dictates that they must wear pin-size portrai…

In observation of Human Rights Day on Saturday, the 74th anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly’s adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Radio Free Asia is commemorating human rights defenders from the region who died, or wh…

A day ahead of International Human Rights Day, the United States on Friday issued sanctions against dozens of entities accused of rights abuses, including some linked to China’s illegal fishing industry, Tibet’s chief of police and a North Korean secur…

Hong Kong’s plan to send “care teams” into residential neighborhoods has sparked fears that Communist Party controls and surveillance will extend further into people’s lives, with patriotic recruits wielding power and information along the lines of loc…