Dispatch from Dharamsala – No. 5
2008-11-26
Dharamsala has a "magical" feel, but Tibetan residents hold painful memories of prison in their former homeland.
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Dharamsala has a "magical" feel, but Tibetan residents hold painful memories of prison in their former homeland.
Read extracts in English from Shin Dong Hyuk's unprecedented memoir of growing up in one of North Korea's most brutal prison camps.
China's leaders shake hands with AIDS patients on World AIDS Day, but activists say harassment and discrimination remain commonplace.
A North Korean who escaped from one of the Stalinist regime's total-control prison camps wants the world to read his memoir.
A brutal assault on two Cambodian women highlights what the government says is an escalating pattern of violence against women.
Concerns are raised over the execution of a jobless man who killed six police officers in Shanghai after a failed bid to complain about being beaten in custody.
Authorities in Xingping, in China's northern Shaanxi province, have launched a major campaign to evict villagers from their homes to make way for the expansion of a chemical plant.
Up to 20 people are in hospital after violence erupted in a dispute between villagers and mine employees in Chongqing.
Cab drivers in the central province of Hubei are the latest in a string of disputes that have brought China's ubiquitous taxi services to a standstill.
Local officials and residents say a curfew has been imposed on Longnan city following two days of violence between police and protesters.
Burma’s powerful military returns a child soldier to his family.
Court officials and Tibetans say many Tibetans are now being handed jail terms as part of an ongoing crackdown.
Hubei-based petitioner Guo Dajing has called for international pressure after he was detained at an unofficial detention center and severely beaten.