Lodoe Gyatso, ein bekannter ehemaliger politischer Gefangener, wurde Ende letzten Monats festgenommen, als er in Lhasa einen Soloprotest gegen die chinesische Regierung veranstaltete.
Verhaftungswellen, Arbeitsverbote: Die Situation von Menschenrechtlern und Juristen wird dramatischer. Anwälte appellieren an die Regierung.
Group claims authorities have taken a hard line against protesters and activists in the city over the past year
United Nations, Geneva - 1 March
The Vatican seeks to mend its relationship with China next month, bowing to the will of the Communist Party and ignoring the ramifications it might have for Pope-loyal Catholics who do not attend officially-run churches.
A house church Christian in China’s southern Guangdong province has been blacklisted out of employment after being arrested for his faith.
Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu have placed a prominent rights activist under criminal detention after she "disappeared" earlier this month.
In a continuing wave of persecution against Muslim minorities in China’s western Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, members of the Uyghur and Kazakh minorities are being ordered to destroy any graves which bear the symbol of the Islamic star and crescent.
