Jason | Chinese Human Rights Defenders

Chinese authorities expand crackdown on Christian house churches

October 27, 2025 Comments Off

(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…)

The lure of China

October 18, 2025 Comments Off

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…)

The real fight for women’s rights in China

October 16, 2025 Comments Off

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…)

Joint Statement from Civil Society Groups on the Chinese Government’s Arbitrary Detention of Swedish publisher Gui Minhai

October 15, 2025 Comments Off

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.

海南：CHRD报道被任意拘留的律师遭受酷刑

October 14, 2025 Comments Off

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。

Hainan: CHRD reports torture against arbitrarily detained lawyer

October 14, 2025 Comments Off

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…)

China: End Decade-long Disappearance of Swedish Publisher Gui Minhai

October 13, 2025 Comments Off

(Chinese Human Rights Defenders, October 13, 2025)—Chinese authorities should immediately release Gui Minhai, a Swedish publisher disappeared, arbitrarily detained, and wrongfully prosecuted since 2015, and allow him to leave China.

Revised Prison Law fails to address systemic human rights concerns in Chinese prisons

October 10, 2025 Comments Off

(Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders—October 9, 2025) The proposed revisions to the Prison Law entrench the Chinese government’s disdain for its international human rights obligations, especially around the prohibition of torture, and enshrine vague “national security” restrictions limiting freedom of expression and other rights.

Alert: Trial imminent for Chinese lawyer arbitrarily detained and allegedly tortured

October 8, 2025 Comments Off

(Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders, October 8, 2025)–Human rights lawyer Zhang Wenpeng is likely to soon be tried on charges of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” in Sanya, Hainan Province. Prosecutors indicted him on July 14, 2025, and transferred the case to court. Under Chinese law, a verdict should (read more…)

Zhang Zhan: who is the Chinese citizen journalist facing a second trial?

September 18, 2025 Comments Off

A Chinese citizen journalist who was jailed after reporting from the frontlines of the Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan is to face trial for a second time, according to human rights activists and media freedom groups.

China: Court must quash charges and immediately release journalist Zhang Zhan

September 17, 2025 Comments Off

(Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders—September 17, 2025) After over a year in pre-trial detention, Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan is reportedly to face trial on Friday, September 19 at the Pudong New District Court in Shanghai.

Rights advocates demand UN press China on abuses

September 11, 2025 Comments Off

Uighurs and rights advocates on Tuesday decried lame global action over a damning 2022 UN report detailing torture and sweeping abuses in China’s Xinjiang region. Members of China’s Uighur minority joined non-governmental organizations on the sidelines of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, to urge UN High Commissioner (read more…)