China Punishes Activists and Families to Quash Dissent, Report Says
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China is imposing “collective punishment” on activists and their families, in violation of its own Constitution and international law, according to a US-based advocacy group that cited emblematic cases also taken up by UN rights watchdogs based in Geneva.
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Xi Jinping and Collective Punishment of Human Rights Defenders’ Families
April 15, 2024 Comments Off on Xi Jinping and Collective Punishment of Human Rights Defenders’ FamiliesFor two years Chinese authorities secretly detained the newborn baby, her siblings, and their parents. Their whereabouts and wellbeing remained unknown to family members or lawyers until word began to trickle out in July 2022: the baby and her sister, then 6 years old, had been kept in a psychiatric (read more…)
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