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Before the reunification, about one-third of the East German population were monitored, arrested, detained and tortured.

Hamburg's sister city, Shanghai received an official visit from that city's representative, Li Liangyuan, known to have been ...

Chinese scholars contend that VoG's Chinese section is a sometimes a mouthpiece for Communist Party propaganda

Human Rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng's book on his life and struggles in Communist China is published in Germany.

Acting China Vice Premier Xhang Dejian, sued for being a party to torture and murder in Australia will ...

EU session concludes with blunt criticism of Russia but no sanctions.

Horst Pfeiffer, born in1956, was a production worker in the Cottbus textile factory. He frequently questioned the operational ...

The photographs show dramatized situations where beauty and brutality meet in frozen moments of great consequence.

In the beginning, Olympic athletes were considered the gods' chosen ones.

Two men, two paths—although many aspects of their lives are different, both men, due to their backgrounds, experienced ...

The Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China (CIPFG) handed in the results of the ...

Politicians and human rights groups in Dublin last week urged the worlds third largest satellite provider, France's Eutelsat ...

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who arrived in the Georgian capital Tbilisi on Friday, said at a press ...

Over 500 people, according to police estimates, gathered on Friday evening at an Alternative Opening to the Olympic ...

A Polish free speech champion heaped praise on a popular campaign to end to persecution of Falun Gong ...

Russian writer and historian Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who was expelled from the Soviet Union for his explicit description of ...

Northern Europe Service Center for Quitting the CCP held an event in Sweden's capital of Stockholm to help ...

Amnesty International (AI) France and French MP Jean- Jacques Urvoas handed over a petition to the Chinese Embassy ...

U.S. Marine relects on mob attacking his mother in Flushing, New York.

WARSAW—Many methods can be used to voice a country's displeasure towards an Olympic host, especially if that host ...

GLIWICE, Poland—Friends and family of Robert Dziekanski, who died Oct. 14 after being Tasered by the Royal Canadian ...

People from all over the world gathered in Syntagma Square in front of the Hellenic Parliament in Athens, ...

GENEVA—"A systematic form of inhuman and degrading treatment" is how Manfred Nowak, United Nations (U.N.) Special Rapporteur, described ...

The European Parliament adopted a resolution Friday expressing alarm over a range of Chinese economic, foreign policy, environmental, ...

GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN—Desperate after repeated rejections by the Swedish Migration Board to grant them asylum, seven Sudanese men have ...

AUSCHWITZ—There is compelling evidence of widespread illegal organ harvesting in China, said a panel of human rights advocates ...

Despite the hardships of her royal station, Grace's image put little-known Monaco on the map.