In a white paper published for its 70th anniversary, the Beijing regime did not hesitate to disguise itself as a champion of human rights despite massive and systematic violations of the freedom of th...
China's 1.4 billion people have gone through periods of tremendous upheaval and change under 70 years of Communist rule.
The once impoverished war-torn country has grown into the wor...
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The recent events in Hong Kong prove that dictatorship and democracy cannot coexist, Vice President Chen Chien-jen (陳建仁) told former East German dissident and singer Wolf ...
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said Tuesday that it has urged the Norwegian government to correct Taiwan's designation on resident permits issued for Taiwanese residing in the northern Eur...
A group of Taiwanese residing in Norway said Monday that they have filed a lawsuit against Norwegian government authorities, accusing them of changing their nationality to China from Taiwan in their r...
BEIJING (AP) — Prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang was sentenced to 4 and a half years in prison on the charge of subversion of state power Monday, more than three years after h...
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping's government is sparing no expense to its international reputation in its determination to force Canada to back down over the case of a Chinese te...
In December 2008, ten years ago this month, 303 prominent Chinese intellectuals —leaders in academy, law, civil administration and associations of workers and farmers - signed "Charter 08,&...
A group of human rights organizations has called for Chinese dissident Huang Qi to be "immediately and unconditionally" freed from prison, citing an "immediate threat to his life."...
BEIRUT (AP) — The disappearance of a prominent Saudi journalist raises a dark question for anyone who dares criticize governments or speak out against those in power: Will the world have their back?
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TAIPEI (Taiwan News) - Liu Xia (劉霞), the widow of Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo (劉曉波), might visit Taiwan next year for a photo exhibition, reports said Tuesday.
She t...
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) -- After a recent appearance in New York by Liu Xia (劉霞), the widow of Chinese political dissident Liu Xiaobo (劉曉波) on Sept. 26, there is speculation that the human rights activis...
People who love peace, freedom and human rights should not forget the words of German pastor Martin Niemoeller (1892-1984) about the Nazis, paraphrased at the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston:...
TAIPEI (RSF) -- RSF demands the release of professor Sun Wenguang, known for his public interventions against Chinese censorship and propaganda, who was arrested on Wednesday by Chinese police while p...
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – U.S. weekly magazine "Time" says that Taiwan-China relations are tense with China increasing efforts to isolate Taiwan, but Taiwan's democracy is its foothol...
