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“We strip you naked to crush your spirit!” –Gender-based State Violence & Reprisals against Women Human Rights Defenders in China

July 31, 2023 Comments Off

(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…)

“We strip you naked to crush your spirit!” –Gender-based State Violence & Reprisals against Women Human Rights Defenders in China

July 31, 2023 Comments Off

“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…)

Accused of bomb threats they say they didn’t make, family of Chinese dissident detained in Thailand

July 27, 2023 Comments Off

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.

CHRD Submission to the UN for UPR of China

July 19, 2023 Comments Off

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.

8 Years After ‘709,’ Persecution of Chinese Human Rights Lawyers Continues

July 9, 2023 Comments Off

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…)

Open Letter to President Biden on Sanctioned John Lee’s Potential Entry Into the U.S.

June 30, 2023 Comments Off

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…)

China Allegedly Offered Bitcoin Bounty to ‘Terminate’ Australian Activist

June 27, 2023 Comments Off

Australian human rights activist Drew Pavlou claims that a $50,000 Bitcoin bounty was placed on his mother by the Chinese Communist Party.

Joint Letter to US Secretary of State on His Visit to China

June 14, 2023 Comments Off

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…)

Chinese Ambassador’s Comments Reveal China’s Willful Misreading of Soviet History

April 27, 2023 Comments Off

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.

反对家庭暴力政策执行情况跟进分析

April 25, 2023 Comments Off

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：

How one man went from China’s Communist party golden child to enemy of the state

April 17, 2023 Comments Off

Xu Zhiyong’s dream is for China to become a democratic country that is “beautiful, free, fair and happy.” It is a simple wish, yet in the eyes of the authorities, his vision is dangerous and subversive. The 50-year-old human rights lawyer and champion of social equality was sentenced to 14 years in jail earlier (read more…)

A UN review shows the limits of China’s loud microphone communications strategy

April 17, 2023 Comments Off

In a press conference on the sidelines of the National People’s Congress on March 7, 2023, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang said, “China is moving closer to the center of the world stage. … But we don’t have enough microphones, and our voice is not loud enough. Some are still hogging (read more…)