“Our country is one of the most powerful in the region and our missiles can reach thousands of kilometers but we’re in need of chicken meat,” said Mohsen Rezaie, former head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.

The principal  issue “at …

Authoritarian regimes around the world are banding together to bypass international institutions and human rights norms that conflict with their abusive practices, writes analyst Andrew Rizzardi. Unlike the alliances of the Cold War era, these partnerships have few ideological underpinnings …

United Nations independent experts have expressed grave concern that two non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are reportedly being prosecuted for providing evidence to the UN Committee against Torture.

The Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial in St Petersburg and the Public Verdict Foundation in …

The recent prosecution of two Vietnamese students for criticizing China has “publicly exposed the government’s shady collusion with foreign aggressors,” writes a prominent observer.

“Vietnam’s greatest tragedy is that the illusion of a common socialist ideology has …

When Xi Jinping meets President Barack Obama meet for their summit in California on Friday, he will likely be accompanied by “a bookish, bespectacled figure” whose innocuous appearance betrays his influence as “a godfather of China’s neoconservatives, who have …

“Tens of thousands of people held a candlelit vigil in a rain-soaked Hong Kong park on Tuesday to urge China to respect human rights on the 24th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square,” Reuters…

Zaw Moe (above) is one of several hundreds of political prisoners who have been freed by Thein Sein’s nominally civilian government during the past two years, Samantha Michaels writes for The Irrawaddy:

The mass amnesties have often coincided with …

China’s persecution of dissidents and their families should be on the agenda when President Obama meets Chinese President Xi Jinping in California this week, say two leading rights advocates.

“Emblematic of this repression is the plight of 2010 Nobel …

The growing economic power and global presence of China’s “rapacious state capitalism” is posing a political and ideological threat to liberal democracy, say two prominent analysts.

“By buying companies, exploiting natural resources, building infrastructure and giving loans all over the …

Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told the leaders of Burma’s political parties that democracy assistance groups are willing to help the country’s ongoing transition, Irrawaddy reports.

“She said she recognized the process of change in Burma …