March 16, 2016
China: State Security, Terrorism Convictions Double
Prosecutions Reveal Worrying Trend, Escalating Crackdown on Dissent
![Zhou Qiang, chief of China's Supreme People's Court, bows during a session of the National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing on March 13, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-3-china-asia-npc.jpg?itok=db50Ms2N)
March 16, 2016
South Sudan: UN Should Create Rights Monitor
Abuses Underscore Need for Special Rapporteur, Justice Support
![Houses burnt in the Hai Ikpiro neighbourhood of Yambio city, South Sudan, during the December 2015 clashes between government forces and rebels.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/ikpiro_sized.jpg?itok=dNZTMERX)
March 16, 2016
Dispatches: The UAE’s Literary Festival in a Vacuum
![UAE literature graphic](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-03-uae-mena-graphic.jpg?itok=4aUH42W2)
![Civilians wounded during the genocide recover in a makeshift hospital in the Sainte Famille church, Kigali, Rwanda.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2015/HRW_Rwanda_10.jpg?itok=Ibdy-8fk)
March 16, 2016
US/Cuba: Credibility of Obama Policy on the Line
Engagement Without International Pressure Unlikely to Bring Change
![U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro unbutton their jackets at the start of their meeting at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 29, 2015.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016_03_15_cuba_presser_photo.jpg?itok=pTtG65BG)
March 16, 2016
Indonesia's Forgotten Political Prisoners
![Filep Karma near the seaport of Nusa Kambangan.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/img-20160122-wa0038_0.jpg?itok=gJ_cuN3K)
![Turkey Academics Graphic](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/turkey-silencingacademics_0.png?itok=d69AjIXH)
March 15, 2016
Fairness, not fear needed on transgender bill
![Two Congolese activists arrested during a pro-democracy youth workshop in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on March 15, 2015. They remain in detention one year later: Fred Bauma, youth activist (left) and Yves Makwambala, webmaster (](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2015/2015-12-drc-africa_fred_bauma_yves_makwambala.jpg?itok=VkoU9aZx)
![2015-9-eca-tajikistan-IRPT](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2015/img-20130423-00051_sized.jpg?itok=ILs_kGPB)
![Protesters in Oromia region, Ethiopia.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2015/ethiopia_presser_oromia_protest_1.jpg?itok=b7J499e5)