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| Ukraine agrees to grant "special status" to rebellious east |
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| KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's parliament passed a law on Tuesday that will give "special status" to the separatist-minded eastern regions including a degree of self-governance for a three-year period, parliamentary deputies, who attended the closed session, said. A second law that was passed would grant an amnesty to separatists who were involved in recent fighting with government forces, the deputies told Reuters. (Reporting by Pavel Polityuk; Writing By Richard Balmforth, editing by Elizabeth Piper) |
| Vietnam urged to tackle "alarming" rate of police abuse |
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 HANOI (Reuters) - Abuses by Vietnam's powerful police force are occurring at an alarming rate, a rights group said on Tuesday and it urged the government to rein-in offenders and create bodies to investigate complaints of beatings, torture and killings. Tracking four years of alleged abuse of suspects in custody, the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Vietnam's Communist government needed to recognise the scale of the problem and urgently initiate police reforms. ...
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| China's envoy to Britain slams "hypocritical" last governor of Hong Kong |
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| HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's ambassador to Britain has branded London's last colonial governor of Hong Kong an irresponsible "hypocrite" for his recent criticism of a lack of democracy in the global financial hub. In a letter to the conservative Daily Telegraph newspaper on Tuesday, ambassador Liu Xiaoming said Hong Kong must never be allowed to become an obstacle to improving Sino-British ties, despite the "flawed" arguments of Chris Patten. ... |
| China scholar shackled, refused warm clothes ahead of trial - lawyer |
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 By Michael Martina BEIJING (Reuters) - An ethnic Uighur academic in China is being kept in shackles and has been refused warm clothing ahead of his trial in the Xinjiang region, his lawyer said on Tuesday, in a case that has drawn concern over judicial and human rights abuses. Ilham Tohti, an economics professor who championed the rights of Xinjiang's Muslim Uighur people, is due to go on trial on separatism charges on Wednesday in the region's capital of Urumqi. Tohti was detained in January and accused of promoting Xinjiang's independence from China. ...
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