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Sheikh Hasina is “confident” she will return to Bangladesh in December, according to exiled members of her party, after the disgraced former prime minister applied for a new passport this week. Hasina has been living in self-imposed exile since August 2024 when she was toppled from power by a mass...

The deportation of two more Uyghurs to China from Thailand would put their lives in grave danger, activists have said, with one of the men saying he would be “like a slave” if he was sent back. Last year, Thai authorities forcibly deported 40 Uyghur men to China despite pleas from the men themselves...

Myanmar will hold special elections to fill parliamentary vacancies next April in its first vote since this year’s general election that critics said was designed to cement military rule. The elections will fill vacancies left by elected representatives who took ministerial or government posts and...

Nepal must put transitional justice at the center of its national agenda, as the country celebrates this month the 20th anniversary of the Comprehensive Peace Accord that ended the decades long civil war, a UN expert said today. “Since the Accord was signed in 2006, several transitional justice...

The UK and the U.S. have condemned the 10-year sentence given to Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong under a controversial national security law. Wong, 30, was sentenced on Thursday after pleading guilty to “foreign collusion” under the law. He is the only person to have been prosecuted...

An antiterrorism court in Pakistan has sentenced prominent human rights lawyers Imaan Mazari and her husband, Hadi Ali Chattha, ⁠⁠to 10 years in prison on terrorism-related charges. Judge Tahir Abbas Sipra announced the verdict on Thursday, following their trial inside Adiala prison in the garrison...

After nearly six years in detention, Aung San Suu Kyi's first words to her son were a question about his health. "And then I said all the family was sending their love and asked after her health," said Kim Aris, who spoke by phone with his 81-year-old mother on Thursday, their first direct...

UN experts have called on the Indian government to stop the use of “excessive force” in the wake of the crackdown on opposition and student protests in India. In a statement on Tuesday, the two dozen independent experts pressed for an impartial investigation into Indian authorities’ conduct, saying...

An Indian ‌‌court has extended the detention of two leaders of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP). The extension for Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das on Monday comes amid a crackdown on near-daily protests against the government. The two activists from the youth-led movement were arrested as they...

Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have found former Philippine President Rodrigo ⁠Duterte fit to stand trial and able to face charges of crimes against humanity related to the so-called “war on drugs” he waged while in office. The ex-leader is accused of murder and attempted murder...