BEIJING (Reuters) - A London-based international human rights watchdog has called for China to free activists in custody for staging anti-Olympic protests over land grabs and forced evictions. Amnesty ...

BEIJING (AP) – China has failed to live up to promises to improve human rights for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing despite reforms to the death penalty system and more freedoms for foreign reporters, ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China is increasingly using extra-judicial "black jails" and drug rehabilitation centres to punish people who would formerly have been sent to forced labour camps, rights group ...

NEW YORK — When Amnesty International USA started looking for a new headquarters in New York City, the human rights group settled on office space in a modest skyscraper in lower Manhattan known as ...

China is being accused of censoring the internet ahead of the opening of the Olympic Games. Journalists working at the main press facility in Beijing have been blocked from accessing the websites of ...

Amnesty International has condemned nations for their “shameful” inaction three years after a UN report accused Chinese authorities of “serious human rights violations” in Uyghur-majority Xinjiang.

As China prepares to host the Beijing Winter Olympics, a coalition of international activists have pressed for a boycott of what they are calling the “#2022GenocideOlympics” over the country's ...

July 13, 2001, proved to be a pivotal moment for China and the world. This is when Beijing won the hosting rights for the 2008 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. The architect behind the unlikely ...

Amnesty International is urging French lawmakers to reject a bill this week that would ban headscarves in all sporting competitions. The bill is backed by right-wing senators and will be debated from ...