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Chinese leadership harasses activists & lawyers as face saving measure

April 21, 2020 Comments Off

Originally published by The Economic Times on April 21, 2020 NEW DELHI: Chinese authorities have been allegedly harassing lawyers and activists who are speaking about coronavirus outbreak and its management.A “cynical and orchestrated” campaign by the Chinese authorities to stop the country’s 1.4 billion citizens from even discussing the COVID-19 (read more…)

China Must End Discrimination against Hubei Residents and African Migrants in the Context of Containing Pandemic

April 21, 2020 Comments Off

The Chinese government must take effective steps to end discrimination against Hubei residents and African migrants. Discriminatory mistreatment violates Chinese law and international human rights law.

China’s disappeared: At least one is dead and the rest haven’t been heard from in months, so why isn’t the world asking what happened to the brave souls who dared to speak up about the coronavirus outbreak after Beijing lied to the world?

April 18, 2020 Comments Off

Originally published Daily Mail on April 18, 2020 The fearsome knock on the door came after nightfall. Outside were two men in hazmat suits who told businessman Fang Bin they had come to take him into medical quarantine. But the textile trader, a gangly man in his early 40s, wasn’t (read more…)

“一个健康的社会不应该只有一个声音” – 中国政府必须结束针对网络疫情言论的打压

April 15, 2020 Comments Off

（人权捍卫者网络CHRD — 2020年4月1日）中国政府必须释放被羁押的公民记者和直言不讳的批评者，并结束自新冠肺炎爆发以来对网络言论自由的新一轮镇压。中国当局打着抗击新型冠状病毒的幌子，通过屏蔽独立报导、疫情信息共享和对政府应对措施的批评意见，加大了对网络言论信息的压制力度。攻击性的网络警巡和侵入性的在线监测，在政府最初掩盖疫情和阻碍重要信息流通方面发挥了关键作用，也造成了对紧急应变的严重延误和生命损失。

Chen Jiahong 陈家鸿

April 14, 2020 Comments Off

Chen Jiahong 陈家鸿 Crime: “Inciting subversion of state power” Length of Punishment: 3 years Court: The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Yulin Intermediate Court Trial Date: June 22, 2020 Sentencing Date: December 14, 2021 Dates of Detention/Arrest: April 29, 2019 (criminal detention), unknown date (criminal indictment) Place of Incarceration: Yulin City Detention Center (Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region) Background Chen (read more…)

Chinese Lawyer Withdraws Appeal Against Disciplinary Sanction

April 10, 2020 Comments Off

Originally published by Radio Free Asia on April 10, 2020 A lawyer in the central Chinese province of Henan who was disciplined for writing on social media about the number of dead bodies being cremated in the central city of Wuhan has abandoned her appeal against the sanction.Liu Yingying became (read more…)

THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS–Digital Surveillance and ‘Technological Totalitarianism’

April 7, 2020 Comments Off

Originally published by Byline Times on April 7, 2020 Taking personal information from social media accounts, stepping up facial recognition and collecting biometric data without consent are just a few of the ways in which governments around the world are taking surveillance to a whole new level. Although, in some democratic (read more…)

Joint Statement Concerning the Personal Freedom of Wang Quanzhang After His Release

April 7, 2020 Comments Off

Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang is expected to be released after completing his sentence on 5 April 2020. Wang Quanzhang was arrested during the 709 Crackdown in 2015. After being secretly detained for more than 1200 days, he was tried behind closed doors on 26 December 2018, and was (read more…)

China cover-up: Chilling purge of hundreds who spoke out against Xi – terrifying report

April 5, 2020 Comments Off

Originally published by Express on April 5, 2020 Beijing is cracking down on those who challenged the official propaganda that president Xi Jinping had handled the outbreak with transparency and expertise. Many people from Wuhan have expressed their anger at the central government’s negligence, especially after the death of the (read more…)

China Cracking Down on Those Critical of COVID-19 Response

April 2, 2020 Comments Off

Originally published by VOA on April 2, 2020 WASHINGTON – It was a familiar phone number, from secret police officer Sun. “Where are you? Send me a GPS location,” said Sun, a member of the guobao, an arm of China’s domestic security force tasked with monitoring dissidents and keeping them in line, said. Gao Fei, 32, a native of Huanggang, Hubei province, was a welder in Guangdong province. He got in trouble and met Sun (read more…)

“A Healthy Society Should Not Have Just One Voice” – China Must End Crackdown on Online Speech in Response to COVID-19

April 1, 2020 Comments Off

(Chinese Human Rights Defenders—April 1, 2020) The Chinese government must release detained citizen journalists and outspoken critics, and end the new crackdown on free expression online since the start of COVID-19 outbreak. Under the guise of fighting the novel coronavirus, authorities in China have escalated suppression online by blocking independent (read more…)

Communiqué Alleging Arbitrary Detention of Xu Zhiyong – March 9, 2020

March 23, 2020 Comments Off

Submission to: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and (read more…)