Christa Pike, sentenced to death over 1995 murder, was heard snoring 40 minutes after lethal doses administered, witnesses said

The BBC has spoken to residents in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky who say they are being "constantly shelled".

Preamble1. We, members of United Nations human rights Treaty Bodies and United Nations Special Procedures mandate holders, express our deep concern regarding transnational repression and its serious i...

Xi Jinping wants to forge ‘a common destiny for humankind’ by winning over the Global South and taking Taiwan. But if America and Europe are to counter this ‘double pivot’, they must better understand...

On 15 September 2026, The Rights Practice signed a joint statement, along with 60 other organisations, urging Chinese authorities to immediately release Huang Xueqin and allow her to resume her journa...

Examining Chinese state influence in UK public life.

In the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, today’s imposition of lengthy jail terms on three activists and a heavy fine on the affiliated civil society organisation is another regrettable outcome...

Kathmandu allows powerful neighbor to dictate which scholars may gather on one's own soil

Pro-democracy activists Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan were found guilty of ‘incitement to subversion’ in controversial national security case

The online campaign used to focus on tackling cybercrime and hacking but has since expanded to suppress information that differs from official narratives

Some of the most dramatic footage from the deadly flash flooding is hidden from public view in China.

“It’s really tough doing anything in China right now,” my friend told me. He’s a serial entrepreneur in Shanghai with a locked-in grin. We were waiting for our food in a Taiwanese restaurant in a lovi...

Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung - leaders of the Hong Kong Alliance – were tried under under a 2020 national security law

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A case of national-security theatre

On 29 July 2026, The Rights Practice signed a joint statement, along with six other organisations, expressing grave concern about the arrest of Chinese human rights lawyer Wu Shaoping by the US Immigr...

In yet another blow for book lovers and free thinkers in Hong Kong, national security police raided two independent bookstores (Have a Nice Stay and

In June 2026, The Rights Practice published a briefing paper to cast some light on the application of the death penalty under Xi Jinping, party secretary and president.

This briefing describes developments in Hong Kong in June 2026 focusing on the rapid deterioration of human rights in the city following the imposition of the National Security Law and the passage of ...

In June 2026, The Rights Practice published a new report "Beyond Prison. Mapping Deprivation of Liberty in China". The report maps the multiple ways in which the Chinese state may deprive someone of t...

Other lives: BBC Shanghai correspondent with a particular concern for humanitarian issues

The Hong Kong government has proposed to the legislature that the chief executive have the power to certify any criminal case as a national security case, which has a binding effect on the courts.

Tuesday June 4 marks the 30th anniversary of the deadly crackdown ordered by Deng Xiaoping, which killed hundreds – maybe thousands – of people in Beijing and Chengdu. While the campaign to erase all ...

As we remember the thirtieth anniversary of Tiananmen, let us also challenge ourselves and our politicians to find answers to the pressing questions posed by the large-scale, extrajudicial detentions ...