An Iranian court has sentenced an American graduate student to 10 years in prison for spying, the judiciary’s official news agency...

Friends of China's most prominent dissident Liu Xiaobo have accused the Chinese Government of violating human rights after the activist...

Friends of China’s most famous political prisoner, the Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo, have issued a plea to Chinese authorities to be allowed...

Chinese Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo has been released from prison on medical parole after being diagnosed with terminal liver...

An Australian academic researching human rights and barred from leaving China by state security agents on suspicion of endangering...

The daughter of jailed Uyghur academic Ilham Tohti has spoken out in support of his peaceful promotion of equal rights and greater...

Six years after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo seems unlikely to be given a chance to "seek medical...

A Chinese court sentenced lawyer Zhou Shifeng to seven years in prison. Zhou’s Beijing-based law firm, Fengrui, has defended some of...

According to Radio Free Asia, the family of jailed Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti is facing extreme hardship and increasing isolation as his...

Authorities in Northwestern China’s troubled Xinjiang region have given permission for relatives of jailed Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti to...

The trial of Chinese lawyer Pu Zhiqiang drew condemnation from human rights groups and foreign diplomats on Monday. Pu joins a long list...

On December 8, 2008, Liu was arrested, after which he was sentenced to eleven years in prison for “inciting subversion of state power”...

Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti was sentenced to life in prison on September 2014 for advocating basic economic, cultural, religious, and...

The Chinese authorities have denied the relatives of jailed Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti permission to visit him or to send him clothing...