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March 12, 2010
2009 Human Rights Report: Laos

The central government continued to deny citizens the right to change their government. Prison conditions were harsh and at times life threatening. Corruption in the police and judiciary persisted.

July 5, 2010
Chinese court sentences US geologist to 8 years

An American geologist held and tortured by China's state security agents was sentenced to eight years in prison Monday for gathering data on the Chinese oil industry in a case that highlights the government's use of vague secrets laws to restrict business information.

May 31, 2010
War Crimes Expert Joins Investigation of Bangkok Deaths

International war crimes expert Professor GJ Alexander Knoops has joined the international legal team investigating the Thai Government's killing of 80 pro-democracy demonstrators and onlookers in Bangkok in May and April, the investigation's leader, international lawyer Robert Amsterdam announced today.

May 24, 2010
Thai Human Rights Activists Call for Lasting Political Reforms

The Thai capital, Bangkok, has begun to return to normal with hectic traffic replacing last week's burning fires and emptied streets after security forces routed thousands of protesters, putting an end to a two-month-long anti-government demonstration.

April 8, 2010
Chinese Rights Lawyer Picks Family Over Dissent

A crusading Chinese human-rights lawyer whose disappearance more than a year ago caused an international outcry said Wednesday that he was abandoning his once prominent role as a government critic in hopes of being allowed to reunite with his family.

March 31, 2010
Hearing: Human Rights and Religious Freedom in Vietnam

The Government of Vietnam (VN) has severely violated human rights for many decades.

March 10, 2010
VIETNAM: Human rights lawyer and blogger arrested just three days after completing jail term

Reporters Without Borders condemns the way the authorities are treating human rights lawyer and blogger Le Thi Cong Nhan, who was detained for three hours yesterday, just three days after she was released on completing a three-year jail sentence.

March 5, 2010
2008 Human Rights Report: Laos Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor

The Lao People's Democratic Republic is an authoritarian one-party state ruled by the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP). The estimated population was 6.7 million.

March 5, 2010
Dalai Lama's visit to White House gives activists hope

BEIJING — Activists say they are hopeful that a visit to the White House today by Tibet's spiritual leader signals a change in President Obama's foreign policy toward China and its abysmal record on human rights.

March 5, 2010
High Court Rejects Suu Kyi's Appeal

Burma's highest court on Friday rejected Aung San Suu Kyi's appeal against her continued detention under house arrest, according to her lawyer.