Qin Yongpei (覃永沛), a disbarred rights defense lawyer from Guangxi Province, was detained in October 2019 in apparent retaliation for criticizing on social media the corruption of high-level Chinese officials. Qin has also long advocated for fellow persecuted lawyers. More than 10 Nanning City police officers seized Qin from the (read more…)
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Three activists—Dai Zhenya (戴振亚), Li Yingjun (李英俊), Zhang Zhongshun (张忠顺)—were seized on December 26, 2019, in operations by police from Yantai City, Shandong Province who detained and interrogated more than a dozen human rights defenders across China. The operation also ensnared Beijing-based activist Ding Jiaxi (丁家喜) who had previously served (read more…)
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Originally published by The Union Journal on March 13, 2020 Chinese lobbyists Wang Heying as well as Zhang Jianping have actually won a respected civils rights honor in memory of a civils rights advocate that passed away in authorities apprehension after being rejected accessibility to ample healthcare. The honor, which (read more…)
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Originally published by National Observer on March 13, 2020 The police came for Dr. Li Wenliang in the middle of the night on the first day of the year. Just days earlier, Li, a physician in Wuhan, China, had sent a message to his medical school alumni group on WeChat informing them (read more…)
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(Chinese Human Rights Defenders—March 13, 2020) Human rights defenders Zhang Jianping and Wang Heying win the sixth Cao Shunli Memorial Award for Human Rights Defenders. The decision to give this year’s award to both Mr. Zhang and Ms. Wang recognizes their long-standing grassroots activism to promote protection of human rights (read more…)
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Originally published by BuzzFeed News on March 11, 2020 People on WeChat, the Chinese messaging app, are evading censors by translating a viral interview from a Wuhan, China, coronavirus whistleblower by rewriting it backward, filling it with typos and emojis, sharing it as a PDF, and even translating it into fictional languages like (read more…)
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Originally published by The Diplomat on March 9, 2020 Over the past month, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has marshalled the country’s public security apparatus to track down and detain known activists and ordinary citizens who have shared information about the coronavirus outbreak, provided on-the-ground updates from the epicenter, or (read more…)
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Originally published by Voice Of America on March 7, 2020 WASHINGTON – The death last month of China’s whistleblowing doctor Li Wenliang, weeks after he warned of a new, unnamed coronavirus in an online chatroom, triggered an outpouring of calls for free speech in the world’s most populous authoritarian country. (read more…)
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CHRD“人权小额资助”项目旨在为遭受人权侵犯的受害者（尤其是人权捍卫者）提供法律援助； 人道援助； 为维护和倡导人权等公民活动提供支持。本项目同时致力于敦促中国政府兑现《世界人权宣言》并落实已经批准加入的各项国际人权公约，使得国内法的制订和实施符合国际人权标准，以提升公民的政治、经济、社会、文化等方面的基本权利。
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Originally published by World Magazine on February 27,2020 By June Cheng With Wuhan, China, on lockdown, Pastor Mark Song has spent most of the last month pastoring his church and serving the city from his apartment. Every morning he livestreams prayer meetings for the 140 members of his church, prepares his Sunday sermons (read more…)
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Communiqué on Behalf of DING Jiaxi, ZHANG Zhongshun, DAI Zhenya, Citizens of the People’s Republic of China, Alleging Arbitrary Detention, Enforced Disappearance, Deprivation of Rights to Expression, Assembly, and Association, and Reprisals against a Human Rights Defender
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We, the undersigned human rights organizations, write to you in regard to the arrest of five human rights observers whilst conducting their work at assemblies in Hong Kong in November 2019 and January 2020. The arrests contravene the Hong Kong SAR government’s international human rights obligations to respect, protect and (read more…)
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