Liu Xiaobo, a Nobel Peace Prize winner for his efforts to promote democracy in Communist China, died at age 61 due to multiple organ failure from cancer. He was the second Nobel laureate to die in prison since 1938, when pacifist Carl von Ossietzky died protesting the Nazi Germany regime. He was imprisoned by the […]
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Anders Kompass leaked a report which exposed a child sex abuse scandal, where French peacekeepers sexually abused children in the Central African Republic. He was suspended for the leak, but when the United Nations did nothing, Kompass resigned. Photo by UN Geneva
The acting leader of Communist-run Cuba met with President Obama during Obama’s historic meeting and demanded the U.S. return “Gitmo.” Obama asked Castro to improve their human rights record, but Castro bristled at reporters’ questions about political prisoners in Cuba.
Via the Free Beacon: Iran again led the globe in the number of state-sanctioned executions in 2015, killing 1,084 people, which marks the highest rate of executions in the country in 25 years, according to statistics compiled by human rights and advocacy organizations. Iran, which continues “to execute more individuals per capita than any other […]
Good points by Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, both Republican hopefuls for the 2016 White House nomination, on the repression of the current Communist Chinese regime: Sens. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) and Ted Cruz (R., Texas) urged President Obama in recent statements to confront the Chinese president on human rights abuses and other security concerns […]
Free Beacon with the latest: The U.S. State Department’s annual human rights dialogues with the Chinese government are not publicly promoted and are ineffective at improving conditions in the country, according to Chinese activists and rights lawyers who criticized the upcoming event. This year’s dialogue will take place on Thursday and Friday in Washington, D.C., […]
China continues to crack down on human rights activists, yet the Obama administration is “soft” on the Communist regime, said prominent dissident Chen Guangcheng to the Washington Free Beacon.