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…)
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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…)
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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…)
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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…)
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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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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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