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Vietnam urged to release dissident poet

Tran Duc Thach won’t get fair trial, because Vietnam doesn’t have an independent and impartial judiciary, rights group says

Chinese foreign ministry upset over pope saying Uyghurs are persecuted

Meanwhile, activists and China watchers describe pope’s comment as overdue and that more should be said

For first time, Pope Francis says China’s Uyghurs are ‘persecuted’

Plight of Uyghurs mentioned in upcoming 150-page book coauthored by pope

Chinese authorities detain Muslim religious leaders in Xinjiang region

More than 600 Muslim imams arrested in campaign of ‘extralegal incarceration’

Catholic bishop expresses alarm over series of killings in Palawan province

Bishop Socrates Mesiona of the Apostolic Vicariate of Puerto Princesa called for a thorough investigation into the series of killings

Hong Kong court rules that police complaints system breaches Bill of...

Existing mechanism dealing with complaints against police is inadequate, court says

Rights group calls for release of Chinese lawyer who exposed torture

Chang Weiping said he’d been forced to sit in a ‘tiger chair’ for prolonged periods

Manila bishop reminds Philippine police to follow ‘God’s command’

Policemen try to disperse a crowd outside a church in Tondo, Manila, during Mass to mark the 40th day since the death of Baby River

Cambodia’s draft cybercrime law panned by rights group

Most recent draft follows earlier versions in 2014 and 2015 that were sharply criticized by civil society and media groups

Poorer nations risk missing out on COVID-19 vaccine, rights group warns

Big pharma profits must not be prioritized over the health of billions, Amnesty International researcher says

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