BEIJING — Nearly 1 in 25 people in a county in the Uyghur heartland of China have been sentenced to prison on terrorism-related charges in what is the highest known imprisonment rate in the world, ...

Read full article: ‘Slap on the wrist’: Mother upset after man who put daughter’s body in trunk sentenced to probation A Hong Kong-based publisher who was arrested while preparing to release an ...

In China, plus-sized people are enrolling in “fat prisons” — camps where they spend a grueling month exercising and following ...

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Dorcas Okwisa Oponyo. Her son Peter Amisi was incarcerated in China in 2008 for drug trafficking. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard] Dorcas Okwisa Oponyo from Khwisero is miles away from China but can't help ...

An American pastor jailed in China for more than 18 years was released this week, the State Department said Monday. David Lin, 68, was arrested in China in 2006 and sentenced to life in prison. He was ...

A Hong Kong-based publisher who was arrested while preparing to release an unauthorized biography of Chinese leader Xi Jinping has been freed after serving a 10-year sentence in a south China prison.

BEIJING >> Nearly one in 25 people in a county in the Uyghur heartland of China has been sentenced to prison on terrorism-related charges, in what is the highest known imprisonment rate in the world, ...

FILE - A protester holds a banner with pictures of Hong Kong publisher Yao Wentian, bottom left, and Chinese journalist Gao Yu during a protest outside the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong, on May ...