The latest report by the Chinese Human Rights Defenders group examined the cases of 209 prisoners between 2016 and 2025 who alleged they were tortured and ill-treated while in detention in China, despite legal prohibitions on such practices.
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The latest report by the Chinese Human Rights Defenders group examined the cases of 209 prisoners between 2016 and 2025 who alleged they were tortured and ill-treated while in detention in China, despite legal prohibitions on such practices.
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（人权捍卫者网络，2026年9月16日）——人权捍卫者网络（CHRD）今天发布的研究报告显示，中国政府官员对狱中良心犯施加酷刑和虐待，却几乎完全逃避罪责。这份长达53页的报告题为《欲盖弥彰：中国政府杜绝酷刑的制度性失败》。报告分析了从2016年至2025年十年期间全国各地发生的209起涉嫌酷刑的案例，以及对25名获释良心犯、家属和律师的访谈，发现警方和监狱管理人员持续普遍使用酷刑，通常是为了刑讯逼供，政府有关部门基本没有对受害者、家属和律师的酷刑指控展开调查、追究罪责。
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(Network ofChinese Human Rights Defenders, September 16, 2026) — Chinese authorities torture and ill-treat prisoners of conscience with near-total impunity, the Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders said today in a new report. Drawing on 209 cases of alleged torture between 2016 and 2025 across the country, and interviews with (read more…)
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On the fourth anniversary of the release of the 2022 OHCHR Assessment of Human Rights Concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (Uyghur Region), human rights groups call on the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to publicly report on the status of the assessment’s recommendation that China investigate allegations of forced (read more…)
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(Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders — August 31, 2026) — The United Nations and member states can reverse deepening Chinese government impunity for human rights violations by addressing allegations of crimes against humanity targeting Uyghurs, CHRD said today. August 31 marks the fourth anniversary of a landmark UN report (read more…)
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The Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) group told AFP news agency on Wednesday that Gao was sentenced to three years in prison – the maximum sentence for that crime – at Sanhe City Court in China’s northern Hebei province.
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据高兟妻子透露，中国一家法院周二判处这位已移居纽约的著名艺术家三年有期徒刑，理由是他曾在逾15年前创作了涉嫌亵渎毛泽东的雕塑。
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BEIJING—Chinese dissident artist Gao Zhen, known for making satirical sculptures of former leader Mao Zedong, was handed the maximum three-year sentence for “defaming national heroes and martyrs” by a Chinese court on Tuesday, his wife and a rights group said.
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According to reports by AFP, AP, and Reuters on the 26th (local time), the US-based human rights organization Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) stated that Gao Zhen, 70, who was indicted on charges of defaming the reputation and honor of heroes and martyrs, was sentenced to three years in prison (read more…)
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BEIJING, Aug 25 (Reuters) – Chinese dissident artist Gao Zhen, known for making satirical sculptures of former leader Mao Zedong, was handed the maximum three-year sentence for “defaming national heroes and martyrs” by a Chinese court on Tuesday, his wife and a rights group said.
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Gao’s supporters say the works predate the law under which he was prosecuted. Shane Yi, a researcher at Chinese Human Rights Defenders who has advocated for the artist, said Gao plans to appeal.
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