A Vietnamese journalist is in failing health after serving two years of a prison sentence for criticizing the country’s one-party communist government, RFA has learned. Prison authorities have rejected requests he be allowed to seek medical treatment outside his jail. Le Huu Minh Tuan, a member of the Vietnam Independent Journalists’ Association, was arrested on
As Shanghai residents celebrated a partial end to a weeks-long, grueling city-wide lockdown, calls emerged on Wednesday for industrial action by businesses in the city to protest Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s zero-COVID policy. As the Shanghai city government claimed the city’s lockdown had lifted despite multiple barriers to movement around the city, an open letter calling on
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
Junta chief Snr. Gen. Min Aung Hlaing marked the end of Thingyan on Sunday by declaring the Myanmar New Year a “year of peace,” even as the military continued an offensive in nine of the country’s 14 regions and armed resistance groups vowed to fight harder than ever. “This year is the eve of the
Source link. Provided on: 29/03/2022 – 19:44 Modified: 29/03/2022 – 19:45 Leonid Volkov, a top assistant to imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, spoke with FRANCE 24 from the Lithuanian capital Vilnius on Tuesday. He expressed concern about the safety of his employer, who was recently sentenced to nine more years in prison, saying that
Risking their lives. Tun Kyi, a member of a former political detainees group, said the inmates in Insein are willing to take dangers to their own safety because they are so highly opposed to military guideline. ” They always state, We resemble chickens in a basket, and they can pull out and eliminate us anytime
