(Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders—August 12, 2026) Chinese authorities should immediately clarify the legal status of human rights defender Yin Xu’an and release him unconditionally. On August 11, 2025, authorities forcibly seized Yin from a stretcher outside a Beijing apartment as he was being rushed to hospital for urgent (read more...)
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(Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders, July 30, 2026) – CHRD welcomes the adoption of an opinion by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) that found the Chinese government’s imprisonment of computer programmer Niu Tengyu to be arbitrary, in violation of his rights to liberty, a fair (read more...)
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(Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders — July 23, 2026) Chinese authorities apprehended activist Zhang Yi on July 1 after he showed a photo of the Dalai Lama to a Tibetan at Sera Monastery in Lhasa. In recent days Zhang’s family received a notification stating that the Lhasa Public Security (read more...)
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Held in Thailand immigration detention since January 2026, Bai risks persecution if returned to China
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(Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders—July 9, 2026) Chinese authorities are proposing an amendment to the Lawyers Law that threatens lawyers’ ability to ensure access to justice. Lawyers will be required to “uphold the leadership of the Communist Party of China” and its “socialist rule of law,” while law firms (read more...)
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(Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders—July 1, 2026) Chinese authorities’ ongoing prosecution of individuals based on their religious belief is marred by multiple violations of fair trial rights. A lawyer representing a detained member of a house church—an unregistered Christian congregation—has been denied access to case files; other lawyers have (read more...)
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