As the 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) commenced on February 24, Dolkun Isa, former President of the World Uyghur Congress, expressed serious concerns over China's growing influence within the Council. He warned that authoritarian governments, particularly China, are exploiting international organisations to suppress scrutiny of...
A newly discovered bat coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, can enter human cells using the same ACE2 receptor as SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind COVID-19. While this raises concerns about potential human transmission, scientists stress that HKU5-CoV-2 currently poses a lower threat, according to a study.
The virus shares a crucial trait with SARS-CoV-2...
China’s military has set up a drill zone for “shooting training” about 40 nautical miles (74 km) off Taiwan’s southwest coast without prior notification, the island’s defence ministry said on Wednesday, condemning the move as a provocative and dangerous.
Democratically governed Taiwan, which China views as its own territory, has...
In a powerful call for religious freedom, members of the Chinese diaspora in Austria, along with supporters, staged a protest Vienna against the continued religious oppression in China.
The demonstration, held from 3 pm (local time) to 5 pm (local time) at Stephansplatz, saw around 50 participants from The Church...
Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense (MND) detected 8 sorties of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) aircraft and 7 People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) vessels operating around Taiwan as of 6 am (UTC+8) on Saturday.
The MND further noted that 3 of these sorties crossed the median line, entering Taiwan’s northern and...
The 17th Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy was held at the Centre International de Conferences Geneve (CICG) in Geneva on February 18. This summit served as a crucial platform for highlighting human rights violations, challenging authoritarian regimes, and fostering democratic changes.
Speaking at the sidelines of the Summit,...
The Chinese government has increasingly imposed arbitrary restrictions on people’s internationally protected right to leave the country.
According to a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW), Chinese authorities need people from areas they generally deem to be at high risk of online fraud or “illegal” emigration to provide extra documentation...
Members of the Hong Kong and Uyghur communities in Ireland have urged the government to bring up the issue of transnational persecution during their scheduled meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Dublin.
According to a report by The Irish Times, Wang, who is also a member of the...
The Bureau du Tibet in Paris, one of the offices of the official representation of the 14th Dalai Lama, organised a successful Tibet Awareness Day on Saturday under the guidance of Representative Rigzin Choedon Genkhang.
According to information from the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), the event gathered 33 enthusiastic young...
Tibetan sociologist Gyal Lo remembers receiving a phone call in 2016 about what he describes as “a serious matter.” It was his brother, calling with concerns about his grandchildren, who “had become strangely different.”
The children had “forgotten the Tibetan they knew and could no longer speak it properly,” says...
