According to Chinese Human Rights Defenders, authorities do not hesitate to target the children of Chinese human rights defenders to break any attempts at resistance.
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China continues to unlawfully target the families of activists and dissidents, despite a pledge to end the practice of collective punishment, a Chinese human rights group has said in a report.
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TAIPEI, TAIWAN — A U.S.-based human rights organization says Chinese authorities have been “collectively punishing” families of human rights defenders in recent years, warning that the persecution appears to be part of a “state policy.”
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中国当局使用“株连”或“连坐”来惩罚包括儿童在内的人权捍卫者的家庭。这类惩罚没有任何法律依据，但对中国及海外侨民社区的人们带来了严重的后果。
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(Chinese Human Rights Defenders, April 15, 2024) CHRD releases its annual report on the situation of human rights defenders (2023), “If I Disobey, My Family Will Suffer: Collective punishment of human rights defenders’ families in China.”
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We, the undersigned civil society organizations, are deeply concerned about this case and call for the immediate and unconditional release of Yu Wensheng and his wife, activist Xu Yan, as they have been detained solely for the peaceful exercise of their human rights including the right to freedom of expression.
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我们，以下署名的民间社会组织，对此案深表关注，并呼吁立即无条件释放余文生及其妻子、人权活动人士许艳，因为他们只是因为和平行使包括言论自由在内的人权而被拘留。
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GENEVA, March 22 (Reuters) – China interrupted an attempt by several non-governmental groups on Friday to pay homage to a late Chinese human rights activist in a tense incident at a U.N. rights body that exposed divisions between Western countries and supporters of Beijing.
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Ginebra, 22 mar (EFE).- Varias ONG coordinadas por el Servicio Internacional de Derechos Humanos (ISHR) lograron rendir un breve homenaje en la sede europea de la ONU a la activista china Cao Chunli, fallecida hace 10 años en prisión, pese a que la delegación del Gobierno chino intentó boicotear este (read more…)
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据路透社报导，周五，在联合国人权理事会发生的一起紧张事件中，中方外交官打断了多个非政府组织向一位已故中国人权活动家的悼念发言，这暴露了西方国家与北京支持者之间的分歧。
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中国外交人员星期五（3月22日）在联合国日内瓦办事处打断了几个非政府组织（NGO）纪念已故中国人权活动人士曹顺利的活动。
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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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