Human rights and free media advocates called on Uzbekistan to release anti-corruption blogger Otabek Sattoriy, calling his conviction for extortion and defamation wrongful and an attack against freedom of speech.

Unknown perpetrators have burned down the house of an Ukrainian anti-corruption activist in Kyiv in what he believes was an unsuccessful assasination attempt.

A Chinese court sentenced a human rights activist to 12 years in prison for leaking state secrets while a Vietnamese court locked seven activists behind bars saying they “caused public disorder.”

The branch leader of a Russian anti-corruption organization, Dmitry Gribov, was beaten to death in a town outside Moscow on Monday evening.