The Chairman of the Civic Party Alan Leong announced Saturday the pro-democracy party will disband. Leong said that since there was no valid nomination for a new chairman and no one else to take over leadership, the party would not be able to continue. Leong also referenced a Civic Party member meeting in which 30 [...]

Pakistan Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah announced on Friday the arrest of 33 former Prime Minister Imran Khan supporters who were involved in protests against Khan’s May 9 arrest. Sanaullah stated in a press conference that the protesters have been handed over to the Pakistani Army and will face trial in military court. The minister claims [...]

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party’s Senior Vice President, Shireen Mazari, announced on Tuesday that she is leaving the PTI hours after the party claimed that she was arrested for the fifth time. These events occurred just one day after Mazari was re-arrested despite a bench order to release her from detention from the Lahore High [...]

Several thousand Armenians have rallied on Saturday near the bordering country of Azerbaijan to protest the blockade of the Lachin corridor, only road to the disputed area of Nagorno-Karabakh. Footage of the rally shows thousands of Armenians gathering to demand the lifting of the blockade. A series of meetings were held in Moscow on Friday [...]

Cambodia’s National Election Committee (NEC)  announced on Monday that they have disqualified the main opposition party known as the Candlelight Party. The disqualification will effect the national elections, scheduled for July. The NEC claims the Candlelight Party has not provided relevant paperwork needed to register. The Cambodian People’s Party currently holds power and has done [...]

Pakistan authorities Tuesday arrested former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan outside of the Islamabad courts. Fawad Chaudhry, a senior member of Khan’s party, known as Tehreek-e-insaf (PTI), confirmed the arrest on his Twitter. He wrote that Khan was abducted by “unknown people to an unknown location.” Allegedly agents of the National Accountability Bureau arrested Khan. Agents [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Monday reported Iranian authorities have arrested a total of 95 journalists since the start of nationwide protests over the September 2022 killing of Mahsa Amini. CPJ compiled the list of arrested journalists via inside sources, media reports and assistance from the Tehran Journalists Association. Of the 95 arrested, 72 [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) Tuesday reported that Pakistani authorities are evicting thousands of farmers to make way for an infrastructure project near the city of Lahore.  The organization also called on Pakistan to revise its land acquisition laws to ensure that individuals only have their land expropriated for legitimate purposes and are compensated fairly. HRW [...]

Chinese authorities Monday sentenced two of the country’s most prominent human rights activists to prison for the crime of “subversion of state power.” Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi were sentenced in a court in Shandong province to 14 years and 12 years in prison, respectively. Senior China researcher at Human Rights Watch Yaqiu Wang called [...]

A UN human rights commission Monday reported horrific human rights violations in South Sudan. The report comes amid increased attacks and extrajudicial killings on civilians, which have gone unpunished by Sudanese authorities. The Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan conducted a year long investigation across six states of  South Sudan at the direction of [...]