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March 16, 2016 News Release

China: State Security, Terrorism Convictions Double

Prosecutions Reveal Worrying Trend, Escalating Crackdown on Dissent

Zhou Qiang, chief of China's Supreme People's Court, bows during a session of the National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing on March 13, 2016.

March 16, 2016 News Release

South Sudan: UN Should Create Rights Monitor

Abuses Underscore Need for Special Rapporteur, Justice Support

Houses burnt in the Hai Ikpiro neighbourhood of Yambio city, South Sudan, during the December 2015 clashes between government forces and rebels.

March 16, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: The UAE’s Literary Festival in a Vacuum

March 16, 2016 Statement

UN Human Rights Council: UPR Adoption of Rwanda

Statement delivered under Item 6

Civilians wounded during the genocide recover in a makeshift hospital in the Sainte Famille church, Kigali, Rwanda.

March 16, 2016 News Release

US/Cuba: Credibility of Obama Policy on the Line

Engagement Without International Pressure Unlikely to Bring Change

U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro unbutton their jackets at the start of their meeting at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 29, 2015.

March 16, 2016 Commentary

Indonesia's Forgotten Political Prisoners

Filep Karma near the seaport of Nusa Kambangan.

March 16, 2016 News Release

Turkey: Academics Jailed For Signing Petition

Hundreds Investigated for ‘Terrorism’

March 16, 2016 Commentary

What’s behind the Indonesian president’s troubling silence on LGBT persecution?

March 15, 2016 Commentary

Fairness, not fear needed on transgender bill

March 15, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: China’s Tired Line on Human Rights in North Korea

A paramilitary solider stands guard at the main gate of North Korea's embassy in Beijing January 6, 2016.

March 15, 2016 Report

DR Congo: Free Youth Activists

One Year Since Fred Bauma, Yves Makwambala Detained

Two Congolese activists arrested during a pro-democracy youth workshop in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on March 15, 2015. They remain in detention one year later: Fred Bauma, youth activist (left) and Yves Makwambala, webmaster (

March 15, 2016 Commentary

Tajikistan's Fight Against Political Islam

How Fears of Terrorism Stifle Free Speech

March 15, 2016 Statement

UN Human Rights Council: General Debate under Item 4

Human Rights Crisis in Ethiopia

March 15, 2016 News Release

Thailand: Junta Critic Feared ‘Disappeared’

Sarawut Bamrungkittikhun Arrested, Missing Since March 9

Thai authorities have denied knowledge of the fate and whereabouts of anti-junta activist Sarawut Bamrungkittikhun, who was arrested on March 9, 2016.

March 15, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Ethiopian Pastor Pays the Penalty for Speaking Out

Pastor Omot Agwa was charged by Ethiopian authorities under the anti-terrorism law after being detained for nearly six months.

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