WASHINGTON (MNTV) — The United States has granted asylum to a Chinese national who documented alleged human rights abuses in East Turkistan (Xinjiang), after an immigration judge ruled that he faced a well-founded fear of persecution if returned to China. The ruling applies to Guan Heng, 38, who filmed detention facilities in China’s northwest...
GENEVA, Switzerland (MNTV) — United Nations human rights experts have issued a stark warning that China’s state-directed labor programs targeting ethnic minorities may constitute crimes against humanity, citing evidence of widespread coercion, surveillance and the systematic dismantling of traditional livelihoods. In a newly released assessmen...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A judge in India’s most populous state was transferred days after ordering criminal proceedings against police officials accused of shooting a Muslim man during communal unrest, a move that has raised fresh questions about judicial independence and police accountability in cases involving religious minorities. Vibhans...
GENEVA, Switzerland (MNTV) — A leading Uyghur advocacy organization is intensifying its international campaign as a documentary examining China’s system of mass surveillance and detention gains wider exposure across Europe and North America. At the center of the effort is Eyes of the Machine, a 76-minute documentary supported by the World Uygh...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — At least 50 Muslims were killed in extrajudicial incidents across India in 2025, including 27 deaths attributed to Hindu extremist violence and dozens linked to police and other state security forces, according to new documentation compiled by a regional human rights group. The findings are detailed in data released b...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Indian authorities detained a London-based British doctor of Indian origin at Mumbai airport this weekend over social media posts critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, prompting opposition leaders to warn of growing repression of political dissent. Dr. Sangram Patil, a British...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Hindu far-right groups in northern India have launched protests against a Muslim-owned private school in Uttar Pradesh after a video showing children receiving Islamic religious lessons in Urdu circulated on social media, triggering demands for punitive state action against an institution operating fully within the la...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Several Muslim families in India’s northeastern state of Tripura were forced to flee their neighborhoods over the weekend after Hindu extremists set fire to homes, businesses and a mosque, heightening fears of communal violence and institutional failure. According to Maktoob Media, the attacks took place in the Fatikr...
GENEVA, Switzerland (MNTV) — The World Uyghur Congress has warned that repression linked to China’s policies toward the Uyghur minority is increasingly extending beyond China’s borders, pointing to recent legal cases in Central Asia and tightly controlled diaspora engagement involving Uyghurs living abroad. In a recent statement, the group sai...
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (MNTV) — In the sprawling refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar, where more than one million Rohingya live in overcrowded and fragile conditions, news from a courtroom thousands of kilometers away has stirred cautious hope. As hearings open at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Rohingya refugees are closely f...
