Kamile Wayit, a Uyghur student studying preschool education in Henan, was sentenced on 25 March 2023 under the charge of “promoting extremism” after posting a video on WeChat about the November 2022 “A4 protests” in China. A spokesperson from China’s...

Human Rights Defined While some dictionaries define the word right as “a privilege,” when used in the context of “human rights,” we are talking about something more basic.* Every person is entitled to certain fundamental rights, simply by the fact of...

by Cristina Tardáguila On a day back in 2016, when Spanish journalists Clara Jiménez and Julio Montes decided to launch Maldita.es, they invited a couple friends over, connected three laptops around a tiny wooden table, cracked open some beers, and brainstormed about what they could...