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中国政府必须终止长期监禁人权捍卫者

December 10, 2025 Comments Off

（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。

China: End Long-Term Imprisonment of Human Rights Defenders

December 9, 2025 Comments Off

(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…)

Benny Tai Yiu-ting (戴耀廷)

December 9, 2025 Comments Off

Crime: “conspiracy to commit subversion” Length of Punishment: 10 years Court: High Court, Hong Kong SAR Trial Date: 6 February 2023-May 30, 2024 (113 days) Sentencing Date: November 19, 2024 Dates of Detention/Arrest/Indictment: January 6, 2021 (arrest), January 7, 2021 (bail), February 28, 2021 (charged) Place of Incarceration: Stanley Prison, Hong Kong Verdict: HKSAR v NG Ching-hang (read more…)

Gangkye Drubpa Kyab (岗吉•志巴加)

December 9, 2025 Comments Off

Crime: “inciting separatism” Length of Punishment: 14 years Court: Kardze Intermediate Court, Sichuan Province Trial Date: Unknown Sentencing Date: Unknown date in September 2022 Dates of Detention/Arrest/Indictment: March 2021 detained, date of arrest and indictment unknown Place of Incarceration: Unknown Gangkye Drubpa Kyab is a Tibetan writer and teacher whose published works include a book detailing the (read more…)

Gulmira Imin (古丽米拉•艾明)

December 9, 2025 Comments Off

Crime: “separatism,” “leaking state secrets,” and “organizing an illegal demonstration” Length of Punishment: Life sentence, reduced to 19 years and 8 months Court: Urumqi Intermediate Court Trial Date: Unknown date in April 2010 Sentencing Date: Unknown date in April 2010 Dates of Detention/Arrest/Indictment: July 14, 2009 (detained), arrest and indictment dates unknown Place of Incarceration: Xinjiang No. (read more…)

Kunchok Nyima (贡觉尼玛)

December 9, 2025 Comments Off

Crime: Unknown Length of Punishment: 20 years Court: Lhasa Intermediate Court, Tibet Trial Date: Unknown Sentencing Date: Unknown date in 2010 Dates of Detention/Arrest/Indictment: Forcibly disappeared in 2008, exact date of criminal detention, arrest, and indictment unknown Place of Incarceration: Unknown Kunchok Nyima is a Tibetan monk and scholar from the Drepung Monastery. The Lhasa Intermediate Court (read more…)

Choegyal Wangpo (曲嘉旺波)

December 9, 2025 Comments Off

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…)

Rahile Dawut (热依拉•达吾提)

December 9, 2025 Comments Off

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…)

China’s ‘White Paper’ Protests: 3 Years Later

November 26, 2025 Comments Off

Three 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…)

Alert: Deaths in detention should prompt investigations, prosecutions

November 25, 2025 Comments Off

(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…)

Radio Free Asia suspends operations after Trump cuts and shutdown

October 30, 2025 Comments Off

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…)

Joint NGO letter to demand immediate and unconditional release of Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan

October 29, 2025 Comments Off

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.