Assailants of a Maldivian blogger who was attacked and detained after organising a protest calling for religious tolerance are still at large.

Amnesty has urged the Indonesian government to repeat its commitment to protecting freedom of religion in the face of militant intolerance.

China is being called on to release a woman sentenced to a year in a labour camp for retweeting a supposedly anti-Japanese message.

Charges against a Christian street preacher who condemned homosexuality have been dropped, shortly after a gay rights campaigner offered to testify in his defence.