By Shahrezad Ghayrat for RFA Uyghur — Rushan Abbas is one of the most prominent international advocates for the rights of ethnic Uyghurs. Her memoir, “Unbroken: One Uyghur’s Fight for Freedom,” will be published on June 10. The book explores her personal journey from her pro-democracy activism as a student in China in the 1980s, to her move to the United States in 1989, and her efforts to draw attention to the plight of Uyghurs in the face of mass internments and other grave abuses that the U.S. government says constitute genocide.

Following the three-year prison sentence imposed on Dmytro Zelinsky – a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church that prohibits the use of weapons – we have been wondering if “Is there a right not to participate in war.” In March 2025 the Venice Commission, questioned on Zelinsky's issue by the Ukraine’s Constitutional Court, concluded that "under the ECHR as well as under the ICCPR, States have the positive obligation ...

The Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, formerly known as the Church of Unification, was founded in Korea in 1954 by the religious leader Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon, but has experienced substantial growth, especially in 1958 after its founding in Japan. Although on November 27, 2020, the Hiroshima High Court convicted five people for kidnapping and imprisoning a married couple with the purpose of de-converting them so as to force them to leave the Unification Church, by implicitly recognizing their inalienable right to their religious faith ...

Taken by China 30 years ago, the Panchen Lama’s abduction underscores Beijing’s bid to interfere in the succession of the Dalai Lama, who turns 90 this year. The young boy who was abducted as a 6-year-old turned 36 on Friday. What he does, where he lives or even if he’s still alive isn’t known, thanks to the reticence of the Chinese government, which kidnapped him along with his family and his teacher 30 years ago. Beijing leaders, ever wary of potential rivals for the Communist Party’s authority, viewed the boy, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, as a possible threat.