Asia
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The disappeared: faces of human rights activists China wants to silenceChinese security forces have launched an unprecedented crackdown on the country’s human rights movement. More than 300 people have been interrogated or detained. Today, almost a year since that crackdown began, more than 20 lawyers and activists remain in custody facing political subversion charges. Click on the photographs below to read profiles of 16 who remain in some form of detention. -
'I want to rescue my dad': children's heartbreak for the lawyers China has taken awayLi Heping’s six-year-old daughter Li Jiamei dresses as a superhero, hoping to free her human rights lawyer father from prison
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Papua New Guinea shootings: university wins injunction banning further protestsInjunction comes after after police open fire on students demonstrating against prime minister Peter O’Neill
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Four students reported dead after police fire on protest in Papua New GuineaDespite reports of deaths after clashes at a university in Port Moresby, embattled prime minister Peter O’Neill says students were only injured
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British climber Aiden Webb missing in Vietnam jungle after calling for helpFamily of 22-year-old Briton says Webb is lost, injured, cold and wet in the jungle
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PNG police shooting: four reported dead after officers fire on student rally – latestReports of angry mobs emerging throughout Port Moresby after police shoot dead at least four students during march in anti-corruption protest
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Anarchy in the Stans? Punk culture under threat in TajikistanBattling an economic crisis and a deeply conservative government, young ‘monsters of rock’ are in danger of dying out. IWPR reports
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Censors criticised over call to cut all Punjab links from drug filmCo-producer says Indian film board request for 89 cuts to Bollywood crime thriller, including title Udta Punjab, is Kafkaesque
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Hindu priest in Bangladesh killed in suspected Islamist attackThree people on a motorcycle attacked Ananta Gopal Ganguly, 70, as he was on his way to a temple in Jhenaidah district
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Child marriage in Nepal: 'A girl is a girl, not a wife'Dialogue is the only way to change entrenched attitudes to girls in rural Nepal, says Rachana Sunar who is working to stop child marriage
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Abandoned Japanese boy leaves hospital: 'I am fine' – videoA seven-year-old boy left by his parents in dense forest for nearly a week leaves hospital
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Monkey robs jewellery shop in southern India – videoA monkey is caught on CCTV robbing 10,000 rupees - around $150 - from a jewellery shop in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh
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Yamato Tanooka: boy missing for six days in forest found alive – video reportSeven-year-old Yamato Tanooka is found alive and unharmed after being missing for almost a week in a forest in northern Japan
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Father of missing Japanese boy found alive makes emotional apology – videoThe father whose son went missing in bear-inhabited forests for six days makes an emotional apology after the boy is found alive
Japan protests after Chinese warship sails near disputed islands