March 2010

When the U.N. Human Rights Council continues its month-long session in Geneva on Monday, a coalition of human rights groups will hold a parallel event focusing on some of the items kept off the HRC agenda by its powerful members.

China plans to boost defense spending by 7.5 percent this year, the slowest pace of expansion in a decade, as the government seeks to allay concerns about the country's growing military might.

Chinese authorities have punished hundreds of people in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region for spreading rumours and separatist content through text messages during the Spring Festival holiday.

Police in the northwesternmost corner of China have detained an ethnic minority Uyghur in connection with the stabbing death of a Han Chinese and the wounding of two others, one of them critically, officials say.