Three Hong Kong citizens face a decade in prison for lighting memorial candles.

With nearly all of the victims of the Tulsa Race Massacre now dead, the country must find other ways to rectify its wrongs.

Trade unionist Lee Cheuk-yan, lawyer Chow Hang-tung, and former Legislative Council member Albert Ho, who have been in prison for more than four years, appeared in court this morning for the first hea ...

The organizers of an annual candlelit vigil in Hong Kong commemorating the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre went on ...

The candles of democracy in Hong Kong are being snuffed out, as the leaders of an effort to commemorate Tiananmen are ...

The musician and activist writes about the freedom fighters, writers, poets and musicians who have inspired her ...

As this article goes to press, security officials in Iran are carefully weighing their options on how to dole out violence to preserve an authoritarian system. It is an existential moment for any ...

Walz could not survive the Minnesota welfare scandal that has exploded on to the national stage in recent days.

A powerful image showing a lone Iranian protester defiantly sitting in front of armed security forces has drawn striking comparisons to the iconic “Tank Man” photo near Tiananmen Square — as fierce ...

In 1989, Gen. Xu Qinxian defied orders to crush the pro-democracy protests in Beijing. Now, leaked video from his court-martial is on YouTube. By Chris Buckley Reporting from Taipei, Taiwan When China ...

MORE THAN a thousand people gathered at Bondi Beach in Sydney on December 14th, the first night of Hannukah, to watch the lighting of a menorah. Children wearing face paint crowded a petting zoo.

AS PRO-DEMOCRACY protests swelled in Beijing and cities around China in May 1989, leaders decided that only the army could put a stop to them. But one major-general, in charge of 15,000 troops told to ...