Middle East

After jailbreak in Myanmar, prison guards sentenced to 3-6 months

A Myanmar junta court handed down sentences of three to six months to seven prison employees, including a warden, after…

1 year ago

Conflict in Myanmar’s Kayah state traps hundreds in town

A three-week battle has left six people dead and around 600 civilians trapped in Kayah state’s Ywathit township, local aid…

1 year ago

Facing abuse, teenage Uyghur girls are forced to work in a Xinjiang garment factory

About 90 Uyghur teenage girls are locked up in a Chinese-run garment factory in Xinjiang, where they are forced to…

1 year ago

Two days of junta attacks in Myanmar’s Sagaing region leave 4 dead

Junta forces targeted three Sagaing townships this week, killing four civilians and injuring 17, as they continued to try to…

1 year ago

More than 2 dozen bodies of Uyghur inmates released in Kashgar prefecture

Authorities at a prison in the Xinjiang region released the bodies of at least 26 Uyghur inmates before the Eid…

1 year ago

Jet attack kills 3 civilians in Myanmar’s Chin state

Junta jets dropped bombs on a village in Chin state, in the west of Myanmar, killing three people including a…

1 year ago

Chinese authorities monitor Tibetans to prevent communication with outside world

Chinese authorities in Tibet have intensified monitoring of Tibetans, and continue to interrogate them in the regional capital Lhasa to…

1 year ago

Myanmar junta uses Telegram as ‘military intelligence’ to arrest online critics

Telegram is becoming the messaging platform of choice for fans of Myanmar’s junta, who are using it to report on…

1 year ago

Monk killed in Myanmar junta air raid on Sagaing region monastery

Junta air raids on two Sagaing region villages killed 12 civilians including a monk, locals told RFA Wednesday. They said…

1 year ago

‘I will never forget the pain of being beaten’

She knew she was being sought by authorities for reporting on anti-junta protests.  In the seven months since the military…

1 year ago

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