TAIPEI, TAIWAN — The arrest of Chinese human rights lawyer Lu Siwei in Laos late last month highlights the risks Chinese dissidents face when they flee China through Southeast Asia. Despite his holding valid visas for Laos and the United States and a valid Chinese passport, Laotian police arrested Lu while (read more…)
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(Chinese Human Rights Defenders— July 31, 2023) Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party has claimed to champion women’s equality. Chairman Mao Zedong famously proclaimed that “women hold up half the sky,” and the first PRC Constitution––adopted in 1954–– provided that “Women in (read more…)
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“We strip you naked to crush your spirit!” Gender-based State Violence & Reprisals against Women Human Rights Defenders in China Table of Contents Executive Summary Background Chapter 1. Gender-based Violence against Women Human Rights Defenders Chapter 2. Women Rights Defenders Face State Violence in Reprisals Chapter (read more…)
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BANGKOK (AP) — When Gao Peng landed in Thailand on July 3, he was not expecting to be accused of making bomb threats, to be put on an EU travel blacklist, or to see his mother and 16-year-old sister detained and threatened with deportation back to China.
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This report was prepared by the Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD), for the 4th periodic review of the People’s Republic of China. It is a summary of the information collected by CHRD since the 3rd UPR.
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Starting on July 9, 2015, the Chinese government launched an unprecedented nationwide crackdown on human rights lawyers. In the following few months, police interrogated and detained over 300 lawyers and paralegal assistants and raided three law firms. Dozens of lawyers and legal assistants and activists were detained, and 15 were eventually (read more…)
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Dear President Biden, We, the undersigned Hong Kong diaspora organizations and our allies, write to express grave concern about reports that the United States government is considering granting a sanctions waiver to allow John Lee, the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, to enter the U.S. for (read more…)
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Australian human rights activist Drew Pavlou claims that a $50,000 Bitcoin bounty was placed on his mother by the Chinese Communist Party.
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Dear Secretary Blinken, We write on behalf of 42 nongovernmental organizations that report on and advocate for human rights in China, Hong Kong, Tibet, and Xinjiang regarding your forthcoming trip to Beijing starting on June 18. At a time when the Chinese government is committing widespread and grave human rights (read more…)
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Lu Shaye, China’s controversial ambassador to France, caused a diplomatic uproar over the weekend, as he implied that post-Soviet countries did not really have a right to exist in international law.
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虽然《消除一切针对妇女的歧视公约》委员会有督促中国政府落实具体的工作去推进反家暴，但是执行情况如何，各地是否有政策或措施出台？针对这一疑问笔者对近年来各地的政策进行了搜集分析整理。 国家和地方政策反家暴政策内容及其存在的问题主要体现在以下几个方面：
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A UN Body Sheds Light on the Fate of Disappeared Uyghurs
August 30, 2023 Comments Off on A UN Body Sheds Light on the Fate of Disappeared UyghursA little-known United Nations body, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, is helping to shine a light on the extent of China’s enforced disappearances in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
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