BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese director who made a film about the 2022 "white paper" demonstrations against China's COVID restrictions was sentenced to three and a half years in prison by a Shanghai ...

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A group in Kazakhstan have found this out the hard way, after a peaceful anti-China protest cost them their freedom. On April ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TOKYO (Reuters) -A Beijing court on Wednesday sentenced a Japanese employee of Astellas Pharma to 3-1/2 years in prison, the ...

Ian J. Stones, a longtime British businessperson in China, was sentenced to five years in prison in 2022 on an espionage charge. Stones was convicted of providing intelligence to "external forces," ...

An American pastor jailed in China for more than 18 years was released this week, the State Department said Monday. David Lin, 68, was arrested in China in 2006 and sentenced to life in prison. He was ...

A China-born US Navy sailor who sold sensitive ship information to the Chinese government under the encouragement of his mother was ordered to 16 years in prison on Monday. Jinchao Wei, 25, was ...

When Guldariya Sherizat staged a protest in Kazakhstan over the arrest of her husband in neighboring China, she did not expect to end up in the dock facing 10 years in prison. But her case came under ...