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March 29, 2017 News Release

China: Major Tibetan Buddhist Institution Faces Further Demolitions

Halt ‘Re-education,’ Humiliation of Monks, Nuns

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March 16, 2017 News Release

China: Disclose Details of Terrorism Convictions

Overbroad Counterterrorism Legal Framework Opens Door to Abuses

Zhou Qiang, president of China’s Supreme People’s Court, gives a speech during the National People’s Congress in Beijing on March 12, 2017.
March 13, 2017 Dispatches

Egypt’s Christians Flee ISIS Violence

Displaced Call Security Officials’ Response ‘Apathetic’

A nun cries as she stands at the scene inside Cairo's Coptic cathedral, following a bombing, in Egypt December 11, 2016.
February 9, 2017 Letter

Submission on the Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief

February 2017

February 8, 2017 Dispatches

Indonesia’s Aceh Authorities Lash Hundreds Under Sharia Statutes

Repeal of Discriminatory, Brutal Bylaws Long Overdue

Murni Amris, an Acehnese woman, is caned as part of her sentence in the courtyard of a mosque in Aceh Besar district, Indonesia's Aceh province October 1, 2010.
February 2, 2017 Dispatches

Indonesia’s Religious Minorities Under Threat

Police, Militant Islamists Implicated in Religious Freedom Abuses

Two men hold the Indonesian flag as the compound of the Gafatar sect burns after being set on fire by local villagers, at Antibar village, West Kalimantan province, on January 19, 2016.
January 27, 2017 News Release

Vietnam: New Wave of Arrests of Critics

Crackdown Targets Activists and Bloggers

Tran Thi Nga protests against the arrest of blogger “Mother Mushroom” in October 2016.
January 24, 2017 News Release

Burma: Release or Charge Kachin Christians

Allow Access by Lawyers and Family to Detained Baptist Leaders

January 20, 2017 Dispatches

China Poised to Repeat Tibet Mistakes

Abusive Policies Planned for Uyghur Region

Chen Quanguo visits a "convenience police-post" in Lhasa, TAR, during Chinese New Year festivities in 2012.
January 16, 2017 News Release

Burma: Kachin Christians Feared ‘Disappeared’

Urgently Report on Whereabouts, Well-Being; Allow UN Expert Access

January 15, 2017 News Release

China: Drop Charges Against Tibetan Education Activist

Shopkeeper Faces 15-Year Sentence for Promoting Minority Language

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January 12, 2017 News Release

Pakistan: Government Fails to Ensure Rule of Law

Women, Religious Groups, Refugees Endure Violence, Intimidation

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January 11, 2017 News Release

Saudi Arabia: 2 Rights Advocates Arrested

Ongoing Repression of Peaceful Reformers

January 5, 2017 News Release

North Korea: Celebrations Hide Human Rights Violations

Demand Accountability on Occasion of Kim Jong-Un’s Birthday

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December 21, 2016 News Release

Burma: Rohingya Recount Killings, Rape, and Arson

Video Testimony Matches Satellite Images of Attacks

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