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Citizen journalist Zhang Zhan will face trial; independent photojournalist Du Bin under criminal detention; rights activist Ou Biaofeng sent to residential surveillance in undisclosed location; and housing activist Ge Zhihui, with disabilities, stood on trial.
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Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) Submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) for Consideration in Adopting its List of Issues on the Third Periodic Report of the People’s Republic of China Date: December 14, 2020 (read as PDF) 中文版本 CHRD suggests including the following questions (read more…)
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Originally published by The Guardian on December 10, 2020 A citizen journalist detained for more than six months after reporting on the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak has had a feeding tube forcibly inserted and her arms restrained to stop her pulling it out, her lawyer has claimed. Zhang Zhan, a 37-year-old (read more…)
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Originally published by Voice Of America on December 10, 2020 WASHINGTON – China opened the trial of a famous lawyer and veteran legal advocate on Thursday, International Human Rights Day, in a move that rights activists denounced as a show of Beijing’s defiance of human rights and universal values. Chinese (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on December 10, 2020 Authorities in the Chinese capital have placed a number of prominent rights lawyers and their families under house arrest on Human Rights Day, RFA has learned.Beijing-based rights attorney Li Heping had been planning to take his children to school and (read more…)
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Originally published by The Guardian on December 9, 2020 The full text of a secret deal between Switzerland and China that allowed Chinese security officials access to the country at Swiss taxpayers’ expense has been revealed for the first time as the government pushes to renew it. The five-year “readmission (read more…)
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Originally published by BizNews on December 5, 2020 A few weeks ago, the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office of China issued a statement explaining that 5,797 people had been arrested and 6,755 prosecuted for crimes related to the pandemic . Notable among the cases mentioned was the arrest of a supermarket customer (read more…)
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Originally published by HKFP on December 5, 2020 A Chinese activist has been detained by police after voicing his support on Twitter for “ink girl” Dong Yaoqiong, who defaced a poster of leader Xi Jinping in 2018. Police in Zhuzhou city in Hunan province are holding Ou Biaofeng in administrative (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on December 4, 2020 A landmark sexual harassment case involving a top Chinese state-run TV personality and a former intern that was inspired by the #MeToo hashtag campaign and the victims of Harvey Weinstein is mired in uncertainty amid an ongoing crackdown on the (read more…)
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中国人权捍卫者（CHRD）为香港人制作了一个关于在国家安全法的威胁下怎样保护自己的简短指引。该20页的指引包括安全讯息传播、电邮和GPG加密的使用指导。该指引有中文和英文版。
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Originally published by Breitbart on December 2, 2020 Dec. 2 (UPI) — A Chinese woman who said she was forcibly hospitalized twice after defacing a poster of Chinese leader Xi Jinping in 2018 said she is the target of state surveillance and on the brink of a breakdown. Dong Yaoqiong (read more…)
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How to Combat CCP Disinformation on COVID-19
December 9, 2020 Comments Off on How to Combat CCP Disinformation on COVID-19By Frances Eve | On International Human Rights Day, we can combat the CCP’s disinformation on COVID-19 by raising awareness of those detained in Chinese government’s crackdown on covid expression.
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