South Korea has co-sponsored a U.N. draft resolution condemning North Korea s human rights conditions in an about-face from a low-key approach for four years under the preceding liberal administration, according to Seoul s foreign ministry Tuesday.
A St Petersburg court is due to hear the case on 25 November of Danara Erendzhenova, who held up a poster outside the city s Buddhist temple. "Militarism is very expensive – Dalai Lama XIV", it read, which police claim "discredits" Russia s armed forces. A Chita court fined Vitaly Goryachikh two weeks average local wage for an anti-war poster which cited "I will fear no evil" from Psalm 23. They are among at least 26 known such prosecutions for opposing Russia s war against Ukraine on the basis of faith.
Students clashed with security forces at universities across Iran on Sunday, Iranian media reported, as videos showed security forces firing tear gas and l
Five Sunni Muslims jailed in Balkanabat for 12 years each in August 2017 for meeting to study the works of the theologian Said Nursi were transferred recently to new labour camps. The strict-regime labour camp at Bayramali in Mary Region, where four of the five are held, also holds another jailed Nursi reader, 47-year-old Begench Dadebayew. At least two among more than 60 men jailed from 2013 for participating in a Sunni Muslim group in Turkmenabat have been freed after completing their jail terms.
The United States is very much focused on improving human rights conditions in North Korea, a state department spokesperson said Tuesday, calling it a serious challenge.