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Paris, July 21 (IANS) Several leading international press freedom and human rights organisations have urged Thai authorities not to deport detained Chinese journalist Bai Zhaodong to China, warning that he faces a grave risk of enforced disappearance, arbitrary detention, torture, and other cruel or inhuman treatment because of his reporting on corruption at the highest levels of the Chinese government.Citing local sources, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and Safeguard Defenders said that Chines…

Beijing, July 3 (IANS) China’s new Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law, which came into effect on July 1, is pushing the ethnic minorities to integrate with Chinese identity and mandating that parents guide their children to “love” the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The law also “bans acts that ‘undermine ethnic unity or create ethnic division’ among China’s 56 officially recognised ethnicities, which include a Han Chinese majority that makes up over 90 per cent of the country’s …