A Vietnamese blogger held for three years in a mental hospital while awaiting trial for criticizing Vietnam’s one-party communist state has been sent back to his former detention center on the orders of the Hanoi Police Investigation Agency, RFA has learned. Le Anh Hung, a member of the online Brotherhood of Democracy advocacy group, was
Eleven Tibetans beaten and jailed by Chinese authorities in January for spreading news of the damage of a 99-foot-tall Buddha statue and lots of prayer wheels in southwestern Chinas Sichuan province have actually been sent out to labor camps in the region, Tibetans with knowledge of the scenario said Friday. Monks Tashi Dorjee, Tsering Samdup,
The U.S. Congress on Wednesday passed legislation banning the entry into the United States of goods produced by required labor in northwestern Chinas Xinjiang region, underscoring U.S. opposition to Chinese policies targeting ethnic Uyghurs. The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act when signed into law will block the importing of products produced by required labor in
