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Never mind Xi, Kim or Putin, this outcast leader was the real winner on China’s grandest stage

Myanmar’s general Min Aung Hlaing, once a global pariah, is clawing his way back onto the world stage as powerful leaders engage with an accused war criminal. Is Asia’s embrace giving legitimacy to a regime built on torture, massacres and fear? Shweta Sharma reports

The Independent UK

Trump’s foreign aid cuts have ‘strengthened tyranny’ in Myanmar, rights groups say

USAID funding cuts have given Myanmar’s military rulers ‘carte blanche’ to escalate human rights abuses

The Independent UK

Voices: Myanmar’s bloody history can point the way to a future free of tyranny

COMMENT: By commemorating the ‘8888’ uprising of August 8 1988 – when Myanmar’s military regime turned its guns on thousands of peaceful protesters – we not only mark the past, but cast new light on the country’s decades-long struggle for freedom, says Benedict Rogers

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Voices: Tiananmen massacre: It’s time to wake up and stand up to the butchers of Beijing

COMMENT: On the 36th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Benedict Rogers says that the question is not whether China has changed – it hasn’t – but whether the free world has the courage to wake up and act on its morals

The Independent UK

Jimmy Lai pleads not guilty to all charges at Hong Kong national security trial

Media tycoon and pro-democracy activist is accused of conspiring to commit foreign collusion and publish seditious material

The Guardian - UK

Brick Lane’s Chinese graffiti conflict explained

Political graffiti in London has led to a fierce debate over China’s Communist Party

Evening Standard

A Catholic cardinal and others are arrested on Hong Kong security law

The White House and U.S. politicians join others around the world in calling for the release of a retired archbishop, singer and others in the Chinese territory.

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Reports: Hong Kong arrests Roman Catholic cardinal, 3 others

Reports say a Roman Catholic cardinal and three others have been arrested in Hong Kong on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces to endanger China's national security

The Independent UK

Free media in Hong Kong almost completely dismantled – report

Government crackdown has cleared market for an expanded pro-Beijing and state-owned media sector

The Guardian - UK

U.K.-based rights group says Hong Kong police accused it of violating security law

Hong Kong police have accused UK-based rights group Hong Kong Watch of "collusion with foreign forces," a "likely" violation of the China-imposed national security law, the group said on Monday.

Reuters

Top Tory ready to quit over Boris Johnson's failure to take human rights seriously

Long-standing deputy chair of the party’s Human Rights Commission Benedict Rogers is furious Boris Johnson has refused to appoint a new chairman since the post became vacant more than a year ago

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