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Artist and activist Ai Weiwei has warned lawyers and activists could be "disappeared or sentenced" after China passed a controversial security law giving it new powers over Hong Kong.

Bhutan sent a strong note to the representative handling Bhutan. The note said, "Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary is an integral and sovereign territory of Bhutan."

In the last six decades and more, Tibetans within Tibet are suffering under the authoritarian rule of the government of China. The Chinese government has strip...ped off Tibetans of their basic human rights guaranteed under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, annihilating the distinct identity of Tibetans and denying them their inherent dignity of being human, said CTA President Dr. Lobsang Sangay. See more

China on Tuesday passed the much feared Security law in Hong Kong which many say will give Beijing open-ended power in the territory to silence dissent and reji...g the political landscape of the vibrant economic hub. The legislation was unanimously approved by China’s rubber-stamp parliament, and signed into law by Chinese President Xi Jinping, with unusual secrecy, little more than six weeks after it was first unveiled. Pro-democracy youth leader Joshua Wong, one of the four leaders of the political organisation Demosisto quit the group, tweeted, From now on, #Hongkong enters a new era of reign of terror, just like #Taiwan’s White Terror period in history, with arbitrary prosecutions, black jails, secret trials, forced confessions, media clampdowns and political censorship. Demosisto later said it would disband. The law will make criminal any act of secession, subversion of the central government, terrorism or collusion with foreign or external forces and could carry a minimum of 10 years sentence or maximum of life imprisonment. However, critics say, that the new law essentially targets any voice of dissent and qualifies for blanket charges such as inciting separatism seen used widely in other Chinese occupied territories such as Tibet and Xinjiang.

The tribe is imploring Brazil's government to evict more than 20,000 miners illegally prospecting for gold on their land in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, which has infected more than 160 people and killed five members of the tribe.