Category: rights

Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Chased out of 13 Homes in 2 Months as Pressure Rises on Legal Advocates

TAIPEI, Taiwan—A disbarred Chinese human rights lawyer has been forced to move 13 times in two months as part of a pattern of harassment against him and three other prominent rights advocates in Beijing that is further squeezing the country’s battered civil rights community. Wang Quanzhang said he is now living in a borrowed apartment…


LIVE NOW: Senators Graham and Other Republicans Speak About Codifying Second Amendment Rights

U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham and other Republicans of the Judiciary committee discuss codifying second amendment rights at 10:45 a.m. ET on March 16. …


Senators Graham and Other Republicans Speak About Codifying Second Amendment Rights

U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham and other Republicans of the Judiciary committee discuss codifying second amendment rights at 10:45 a.m. ET on March 16. …


Iranian Climber Elnaz Rekabi, Who Competed Without Hijab, Receives Hero’s Welcome as She Returns to Tehran

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Iranian climber Elnaz Rekabi returned to Tehran early Wednesday after competing in South Korea without wearing a headscarf, an act widely seen as support for anti-regime demonstrators amid weeks of protests over the Islamic Republic’s mandatory hijab. After landing, Rekabi gave a careful, emotionless interview to Iran’s hard-line state television, saying that…


Switzerland Presses Human Rights Concerns With China

ZURICH—Switzerland called a meeting with China’s ambassador to express its concern about the human rights situation in the western region of Xinjiang, the foreign ministry in Bern said on Thursday, correcting its earlier comment that it had “summoned” the envoy. “Switzerland is convinced that the best way to safeguard its interests and the respect of…


The Bill of Rights | Constitution Alive

This film is only available in the US because of territorial licensing. As you continue your study of inalienable rights in relation to amendments two through nine, start by examining how the laws of nature and the laws of nature’s God differently impact the Bill of Rights. – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original…


First Amendment Freedom OF Religion | Constitution Alive

This film is only available in the US because of territorial licensing. Learn the definition of inalienable rights as defined by our Founding Fathers and discover how that definition impacts your first amendment rights, specifically the freedom of religion. – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films Follow EpochTV on…


‘Erasing History’: Russia Closes Top Rights Group, Capping Year of Crackdowns

MOSCOW—Russia’s Supreme Court ordered the country’s oldest human rights group to disband on Tuesday for breaking a law requiring it to act as “a foreign agent,” capping a year of crackdowns on Kremlin critics unseen since the Soviet era. The closure of Memorial International bookmarks a year in which Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin’s top critic,…


As We Enter Another Year of COVID, Regaining Eroded Freedoms Must Be Our Focus

Commentary Anyone who still insists the COVID pandemic isn’t serious is being deliberately mischievous, obtuse, or needs to check in on their issues. As of Dec. 23, the World Health Organization put global deaths from COVID-19 at 5.3 million people dating back to Dec. 30, 2019. To put that in a fathomable context, it’s equivalent…


Sen. Blackburn Urges Commerce Department to Blacklist More Chinese Firms Over Xinjiang Repression

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) has called on the U.S. Commerce Department to blacklist several Chinese firms that allegedly aid Beijing in its surveillance and repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang. Blackburn, in a Dec. 15 letter to U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, urged for the addition of firms in China connected to the Chinese Academy of…