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Ultra-secretive digital-control maneuvers baffle activists Youth pose for a photo capture at a conference in Namibia. Image credit: Yusuf Kalyango Jnr (CC BY-SA 2.0). This article is part of UPROAR, a Small Media initiative that is urging governments to address digital rights challenges at the Universal Periodic Review. It wasContinue Reading

“…We were not passive then and we’re not passive now!” Protestors attend a solidarity march in Bridgetown, Barbados, on June 13, 2020, supporting the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States and opposing racism and police brutality in Barbados. Photo courtesy Bazodee Magazine, used with permission. The killing ofContinue Reading

A man confessed to the murder and was convicted, but few believe that story. Around 20 Cambodian monks and youth activists were barred by the police from offering a Buddhist prayer ceremony near a gas station where a political analyst was killed on July 10, 2016. Photo from the FacebookContinue Reading

Independent commission recommends regular reviews (Part I of II) View from the entrance area of Tower Street Prison in Kingston, Jamaica, between the first and second walls. Photo by Christina Xu on Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0. This is the first instalment of a two-part series on the stark realities ofContinue Reading

Screenshot from YouTube video uploaded by Gheni to seek support for his disappeared family members. The author’s identity has been kept anonymous for safety reasons. Starting in 2017, the Uyghur community living in China has been subject to increased targeting and indiscriminate imprisonment by the Chinese authorities. This policy ofContinue Reading

“If we burn, you burn with us” I want to ‘laam chau’.” (If we burn, you burn with us.) Image from Stand News, used with permission. To mark a year since the beginning of the anti-China extradition protests, Hong Kong online media outlet Stand News curated a series of articlesContinue Reading

Reconsidering laws on mental illness (Part II of II) A police van escorts inmates who are being moved from one institution to another; in the background is the Tower Street high-security prison. Photo by Christina Xu on Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0. This is the second instalment of a two-part seriesContinue Reading

The pandemic has pushed Syria toward uncharted, catastrophic territory North East Dara’a 2015. Photo by Mousa Mohamed, used with permission. After nine years of a deadly civil war, the health system in Syria is barely functional. In territories controlled by President Bashar al-Assad, authorities deny the presence of COVID-19. According to JohnsContinue Reading

View of Kashgar in Xinjiang. “Silk Road 1992″ image by fdecomite, licensed under CC BY 2.0 One Uyghur who now lives in the Netherlands shares his story: His struggle to find out what has happened to his family in Xinjiang after his family experienced the full force of the Chinese government persecution of Uyghurs.  AContinue Reading