Crime: Unknown Length of Punishment: 20 years Court: Shigatse Intermediate Court, Tibet Trial Date: Unknown Sentencing Date: Unknown date in September 2020 Dates of Detention/Arrest/Indictment: Detained in August or September 2019, exact date of criminal detention, arrest, and indictment unknown Place of Incarceration: Unknown Choegyal Wangpo is a Tibetan monk from the Tengdro Monastery. In September 2020, (read more…)
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Crime: “separatism” Length of Punishment: Life sentence Court: Unknown intermediate court in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Trial Date: Unknown date in December 2018 Sentencing Date: Unknown Dates of Detention/Arrest/Indictment: Forcibly disappeared in December 2017, exact dates of criminal detention, arrest and indictment unknown Place of Incarceration: Unknown Appeal hearing date: Unknown Appeal court: Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (read more…)
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(Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders, November 25, 2025) — Chinese website Rights Defence Network reported in recent days that 83-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Zhao Wenxiu died in March 2025 while serving a 7.5-year prison sentence in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. Zhao was wrongfully prosecuted in 2019 for exercising her right (read more…)
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Radio Free Asia, founded nearly three decades ago to report on China and other Asian countries without independent media, said Wednesday it will halt production after the US government ceased funding. The broadcaster had already laid off or furloughed more than 90 percent of staff and drastically scaled back production (read more…)
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CHRD joined 91 other civil society organizations and individuals to call on the governments of the G7 and EU/EEA members to exert diplomatic pressure on the Hong Kong government to release Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan immediately and unconditionally.
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(Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders, October 27, 2025) – The Chinese government’s October detentions of dozens of Christians from house churches indicate an acceleration of its campaign against religious freedom. Over the past two years, church leaders and congregants across the country appear to be increasingly targeted for arbitrary (read more…)
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Beijing’s biggest fish bazaar is a briny-smelling maze of stalls stocked with massive crabs from Russia, purple lobster from Australia and yellow croaker fish from China’s southeastern coast. What’s increasingly hard to find at Jingshen Seafood Market, however, are products from Canada: the casualties of a punishing trade war between (read more…)
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On Monday, Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) addressed the Leaders’ Meeting on Women in Beijing, extolling his government’s support for many aspects of women’s rights. Yet having grown up in China, my vivid memories over the past few decades paint a starkly different picture of how women have fought to (read more…)
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We, the undersigned press freedom, journalists’, human rights, international organisations, strongly condemn the Chinese government’s ongoing arbitrary detention of Swedish publisher and writer Gui Minhai on the 10th anniversary of his kidnapping.
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米兰（亚洲新闻/通讯社）—中国人权捍卫者关注被拘留在海南省三亚的年轻律师张文鹏（Zhang Wenpeng）的命运。他于2025年7月14日被控“寻觅滋事”－这是一项用来压制一切形式异见的罪名。根据中国人权捍卫者（CHRD）网络报道，人们担心他随时可能被判处重刑。
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Milan (AsiaNews/Agencies) – Human rights defenders in China are concerned about the fate of Zhang Wenpeng, a young lawyer detained in Sanya, Hainan province. Charged with ‘picking quarrels and provoking trouble’ – a charge used to suppress all forms of dissent – he was indicted on 14 July 2025 and, (read more…)
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China’s ‘White Paper’ Protests: 3 Years Later
November 26, 2025 Comments Off on China’s ‘White Paper’ Protests: 3 Years LaterThree years ago this week, people across China, outraged by a deadly fire in Urumqi and profoundly frustrated by the government’s harsh “zero-COVID” policies, took part in impromptu protests, some of the most visible expressions public discontent since the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy demonstrations. Most chose to simply hold aloft blank pieces (read more…)
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