(Network ofChinese Human Rights Defenders, September 16, 2026) — Chinese authorities torture and ill-treat prisoners of conscience with near-total impunity, the Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders said today in a new report. Drawing on 209 cases of alleged torture between 2016 and 2025 across the country, and interviews with (read more...)
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（人权捍卫者网络，2026年9月16日）——人权捍卫者网络（CHRD）今天发布的研究报告显示，中国政府官员对狱中良心犯施加酷刑和虐待，却几乎完全逃避罪责。这份长达53页的报告题为《欲盖弥彰：中国政府杜绝酷刑的制度性失败》。报告分析了从2016年至2025年十年期间全国各地发生的209起涉嫌酷刑的案例，以及对25名获释良心犯、家属和律师的访谈，发现警方和监狱管理人员持续普遍使用酷刑，通常是为了刑讯逼供，政府有关部门基本没有对受害者、家属和律师的酷刑指控展开调查、追究罪责。
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(Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders — August 31, 2026) — The United Nations and member states can reverse deepening Chinese government impunity for human rights violations by addressing allegations of crimes against humanity targeting Uyghurs, CHRD said today. August 31 marks the fourth anniversary of a landmark UN report (read more...)
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(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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