China
China: Strike and blockade by Shanghai truck drivers
Blockade at world’s biggest container port • Mass arrests and police repression
Asia
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Another rigged election
What is the way forward now?
Pakistan
Pakistan: EU Trade Commissioner questioned on Pakistan and food speculation
Paul Murphy questions EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht on the worsening situation in Pakistan after last year’s flooding, the role of speculation in food prices and its impact on the poor
China
China: Paul Murphy MEP calls for the release of Ai WeiWei
Paul Murphy MEP condemns the brutal repression of the Chinese state and calls for the release of Chinese artist, Ai WeiWei.
China
China: Government steps up crackdown in response to Middle East unrest
One of China’s most prominent artists Ai Weiwei has been seized and detained by state security agents as he was about board a flight to Hong Kong at Beijing airport on Sunday 3 April.
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Esenbek Ukteshbayev met with flowers and solidarity
Opposition activist released after international protest campaign
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Embassy protests over jailing of opposition activist
Lively pickets in Berlin and Stockholm
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Police harass opposition protesters
Picket in Central Almaty in support of Esenbek Ukteshbayev
Japan
After Japan’s tsunami disaster: Nuclear power, no way!
The earthquake off Japan’s east coast and the giant tsunami wave that followed on 11 March has, at the time of writing, officially killed over 8,500 people with another 13,000 people still missing.
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Presidential election farce
Opposition activist Esenbeck Ukteshbayev jailed – Call for protest pickets on 28 March