On Friday, January 12, the Cuban government detained and arrested two prominent Czech citizens in the central Cuban province of Ciego de Avila for "counter-revolutionary" activity, according to Cuba's state controlled newspaper, Granma.
Freedom House's Center for Religious Freedom today released eight secret official Vietnamese documents that show a concerted and ongoing government campaign to arrest and reverse the country's growing Christian movements, particularly among minority peoples in the northwest provinces, where hundreds of thousands have converted to Christianity over the past decade.
The ad hoc coalition of human rights and church groups that formed to draw attention to genocide and slavery in Sudan celebrated the news that Sudan lost its bid for a seat in the UN Security Council today, October 10, 2000.