Angeli Datt, research and advocacy coordinator at the Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders, condemned the trial as a “sham”.
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(Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders, January 22, 2026) In the past month, courts in China convicted a pro-democracy activist, a renowned writer, and a former police officer on charges of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” imposing sentences between 2.5 and 3.5 years. CHRD finds no publicly available evidence that the (read more…)
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(Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders—January 21, 2026) A democracy group and its leadership that organized Hong Kong’s now-banned vigil for victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre are set to face trial on January 22. The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China and its former (read more…)
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(Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders—January 16, 2026) A popular online secondhand bookstore called Confucius Old Books has reportedly removed some old Chinese-language books about Tibet, Southern Mongolia and the Uyghur region according to the Rights Defense Network (RDN).
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(Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders, January 9, 2026) On January 6, Sichuan police detained at least ten people associated with the Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu from their homes or the church premises in a coordinated raid. Six remain in custody and have been criminally detained, according to a (read more…)
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In October 2024, the Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) and the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) issued the Joint statement on so-called “short-term enforced disappearances”that described them as a “grave human rights violation.” This follows a 2016 statement ahead of the International Day of the Victims of (read more…)
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Heng Guan is a Chinese citizen from central China. In 2020, he read about mass detentions and other human rights abuses against Uyghurs in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang, and he decided to go see for himself. The video he put on social media in 2021 provided valuable confirmation (read more…)
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(Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders—December 17, 2025) Chinese authorities are arbitrarily detaining an artist and a writer in retaliation for artwork and books critical of the government. The laws invoked in both cases violate the Chinese government’s obligations under international human rights law.
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Today, British citizen Jimmy Lai has been found guilty in his trial in Hong Kong, on two national security law charges of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and a charge of conspiracy to publish seditious material. He faces a sentence of up to life imprisonment. He has been imprisoned (read more…)
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人權備受打壓的香港，其居民日益成為國際組織在世界人權日爭取釋放的對象。在是世界人權日的今(10日)天，國際特赦組織聯合國際工會聯合會等27個關注人權狀況的組織發表聯合聲明，呼籲港府撤銷以《港區國安法》控告多年來舉辦悼念六四活動的支聯會之前主席李卓人和前副主席鄒幸彤，並立即釋放二人。
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（中国人权捍卫者——2025年12月10日）非政府组织中国人权捍卫者（CHRD）于12月10日国际人权日之际呼吁中国政府结束对人权捍卫者的长期监禁。多年来，中国当局对和平行使或捍卫人权的人士动辄判处10年或更长的刑期，试图让世界遗忘这些人及他们的抗争。
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(Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders—December 9, 2025) On International Human Rights Day, December 10, CHRD calls on the Chinese government to end its practice of long-term imprisonment of human rights defenders (HRDs). Authorities impose prison sentences of 10 years or longer to silence peaceful dissent, and to try to (read more…)
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