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More than 150 people, including political victims from Taiwan's White Terror period, have called for the establishment of a "White Terror Memorial Day" on May 19 each year, to mark the day when martial law was declared in 1949. Starting with the declaration of martial law on May 19, 1949, the White...

The Indian government has announced rules to implement the Citizenship Amendment Act, weeks before Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks a rare third term for his Hindu nationalist government. The controversial law passed in 2019 by Modi’s government allowed Indian citizenship for non-Muslim refugees...

A Kashmiri journalist, who was released after spending more than five years in jail earlier this week, has been rearrested by police in another case under India’s stringent “anti-terror” law, according to his lawyer. Aasif Sultan was arrested on Thursday in a 2019 case regarding violence inside the...

UN human rights chief Volker Turk on March 4 called on China to implement recommendations to amend laws that violate fundamental rights, including in the Xinjiang and Tibet regions. Rights groups accuse Beijing of widespread abuses of Uyghurs, a mainly Muslim ethnic minority that numbers around 10...

Vietnam’s Communist Party leaders have issued a sweeping directive aimed at clamping down on civil society, including trade unions and labor activism, even as it pledges to uphold human rights at the United Nations, according to a rights watchdog. Among the many provisions of the order known as...

Pakistani journalist and video blogger Asad Ali Toor was arrested by federal authorities on February 26 on charges of orchestrating a malicious campaign against the state and its officials, with the “objective to coerce, intimidate, and incite violence” against them through his social media...

Anti-Muslim hate speech in India rose by 62 percent in the second half of 2023 compared to the first six months of the year, a Washington-based research group said on February 26, adding the Israel-Gaza war played a key role in the last three months. India Hate Lab documented 668 hate speech...

Thailand’s jailed former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, 74, who was jailed for eight years for abuse of power before a royal pardon reduced the term to one year, was granted release on parole, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin told reporters on February 20. Thaksin swept to power in 2001 on a...

A senior bureaucrat in Pakistan has said he helped rig Pakistan’s elections, a week after polls marred by allegations of manipulation returned no clear winner. On February 17, Liaqat Ali Chattha, commissioner of the garrison city of Rawalpindi, where the country’s powerful military has its...

A six-party alliance appears poised to form Pakistan’s next government, after nearly a week of political drama following a fractured mandate delivered by the country’s voters in the February 8 elections. Led by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, which won 75 seats, and Pakistan People’s Party, which...