BEIJING, March 14 (UPI) -- Human Rights Watch Friday asked India, Nepal and China to release Tibetans detained for trying to observe their 1959 uprising day against Chinese rule.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. military assistance to the Philippines has been effective in building counterinsurgency capacity, according to a forthcoming study for the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, but critics say it has come at the price of a U.S. blind eye to extrajudicial killings there.

NEW YORK, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Vietnam has released imprisoned dissident writer Tran Khai Thanh Thuy, but continues to hold other dissidents under house arrest, Human Rights Watch said.

BEIJING, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- The Human Rights Watch says China’s repression of dissent has intensified as the Communist Party gets ready for its 17th Congress next week.

KATHMANDU, Nepal, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- The Human Rights Watch says Nepal’s draft bill on a commission to look into abuses during Maoist rebellion may deny justice to the victims.

BEIJING, May 30 (UPI) -- China's media freedom has come under assault ahead of the 2008 Olympics, the Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.

NEW YORK, March 9 (UPI) -- Human Rights Watch is accusing Vietnam of launching one of the worst crackdowns on peaceful dissidents in two decades.

PYONGYANG, North Korea, March 7 (UPI) -- Human Rights Watch said Wednesday North Koreans are punished harshly if they are caught crossing the border into China.

BEIJING, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Required rebuilding of houses in Tibet by China increases poverty not economic development, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.