May 2010

U.S. and Chinese officials convene in Washington later this week for a new round of what has been a sporadic bilateral human rights dialogue.  Some U.S. human rights advocates are skeptical about the dialogue process. 

New Haven attorney Elizabeth P. Gilson didn’t know what she was getting into. In 2005, she had read newspaper reports about lawyers traveling to the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to help prisoners the government suspected of being enemy combatants. Lawyers were trying to file habeas petitions on behalf of prisoners to find out why they were incarcerated.

The new head of China's restive Xinjiang region -- the scene of deadly ethnic unrest last year -- has pledged a renewed crackdown on separatist elements, state media said Monday.

Pakistan and China have "broken the back" of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, Pakistan's Interior Minister said in Beijing on Friday.