Jason | Chinese Human Rights Defenders

CHRD Requests Urgent Action and WGAD Review for Detained Lawyer Xie Yang

November 11, 2024 Comments Off

Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) sent communiqués to UN human rights special procedures, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Working group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearance, Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Special Rapporteur on (read more…)

Leading human rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong on hunger strike in Chinese prison, family says

October 30, 2024 Comments Off

Concerns are growing about the health of Xu Zhiyong, China’s most prominent imprisoned human rights lawyer, who is thought to have been on hunger strike for nearly a month.

Chinese lawyer Xu Zhiyong on hunger strike over ‘ill-treatment’ in prison

October 26, 2024 Comments Off

A Chinese human rights lawyer has started a hunger strike in protest against his treatment in prison where he is serving time for “subversion of state power”, rights groups say.

中国良心犯许志永狱中绝食三周健康急速恶化

October 25, 2024 Comments Off

被中国当局以“颠覆国家政权罪”判刑14年的“新公民运动”领导人许志永传出10月4日开始在狱中绝食，已经连续21天，以抗议遭到不人道待遇与监狱人员的违法行为，导致其体重急降和健康恶化。非政府组织中国人权捍卫者(CHRD)呼吁，联合国人权机构与关切的国家政府应紧急对北京施压，要求其提供挽救生命的医疗照顾、并应立即释放生命垂危的良心犯许志永。

Urgent Action: Provide Life-Saving Care to Prisoner of Conscience Xu Zhiyong during Hunger Strike

October 24, 2024 Comments Off

(Chinese Human Rights Defenders – October 24, 2024) CHRD is alarmed that imprisoned legal advocate Xu Zhiyong is in life-threatening condition after being on a hunger strike since October 4 to protest the ill-treatment and violations of his rights at Lunan Prison, Shandong Province. We call on the Chinese authorities (read more…)

Joint statement from civil society and human rights organisations on UK Foreign Secretary’s visit to China

October 16, 2024 Comments Off

We, the undersigned, representing civil society and human rights organisations across the UK, urge British Foreign Secretary David Lammy to use his official visit to Beijing and Shanghai to raise concerns about the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance (SNSO) in Hong Kong: in particular, its extraterritoriality clauses, which allows the law (read more…)

“The Sorrow of our Era:” Alarming Cycles of Abuses and Impunity in China ——The Persecution of Lawyer Xie Yang Repeats Patterns of Retaliation against Human Rights Defenders

October 9, 2024 Comments Off

More than a quarter of century after signing the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Chinese government has unrelentingly refused to ratify it, instead, aggressively violating the rights enshrined in the treaty. This can be illustrated in the government’s incessant persecution of human rights lawyer Xie Yang, which (read more…)

UN Report Exposes Reprisals against Human Rights Defenders in China

September 23, 2024 Comments Off

As the United Nations Human Rights Council meets on September 26 to hear the latest reprisals report from the UN Secretary General’s office, the Chinese government will be named a violator. For the tenth consecutive year, it has relentlessly persecuted human rights defenders for their interactions with UN human rights (read more…)

Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) and The Rights Practice (TRP) Communiqué Alleging Arbitrary Detention of Two Human Rights Defenders JI Xiaolong and CHEN Pinlin for Exercising Right to Freedom of Expression about COVID-19 Pandemic, Requesting Urgent Action and WGAD Review

September 10, 2024 Comments Off

Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) and The Rights Practice (TRP) sent communiques to UN human rights special procedures, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Special Rapporteur (read more…)

数百人被中国政府强迫失踪

August 29, 2024 Comments Off

中国当局使用强迫或非自愿失踪作为一种策略，从首都到偏远地区，在民众心中制造恐怖，威胁任何敢于在网上或街头挑战政府的人。根据联合国的记录，截至去年，中国共有168起未解决的强迫失踪案件。根据CHRD的记录，自2019年以来，至少有30名异议人士确认失踪。在强迫失踪受害者国际日（8月30日）之际，CHRD敦促中国政府停止使用强迫失踪，这在国际法下是严格禁止的。中国政府应该签署并批准《保护所有人免遭强迫失踪国际公约》。

Hundreds Forcibly Disappeared in China

August 29, 2024 Comments Off

Chinese Authorities are using enforced or involuntary disappearances as a strategy to strike terror in the hearts of the population, intimidating anyone who challenges the government online or in the streets, in the nation’s Capital or the hinterlands. The UN documented 168 outstanding cases of forced disappearances in China as (read more…)

非政府組織聯合聲明：寫於聯合國人權高專辦發佈關於維吾爾地區暴行的評估報告兩週年之際

August 29, 2024 Comments Off

我們是以下連署之人權團體，於貴機關發布《聯合國維吾爾人權報告》兩週年之際特此致信。這份報告具有里程碑意義。其中，基於中國官方檔案以及受害者與倖存者的訪談，此報告證實了酷刑、大規模無理拘禁等侵害的發生，造成無數家庭分離，並進一步推斷出，中國政府的行為「可能構成國際犯罪，尤其是危害人類罪」。