Originally published by The Straits Times on December 31, 2019 Chinese state media outlets have come out in full-throated condemnation of the latest foreign reporting on detentions in Xinjiang, as Beijing tries to wrest control of the media narrative on its policy to build re-education camps, which it calls vocational training (read more…)
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Originally published by The Guardian on December 10, 2019 As China hosts hundreds of lawyers from around the world, dozens of prominent Chinese rights lawyers remain detained, according to rights advocates who have criticised the event as “a mockery”. On Tuesday China held the second day of the global lawyers forum, coinciding with (read more…)
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Originally published by The Daily Targum on December 9, 2019 For much of the last decade, the Uighur people of Xinjiang have been subject to discriminatory surveillance, oppression, internment and many other forms of state-sponsored abuse at the hands of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Xinjiang party leader Chen Quanguo. In (read more…)
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女士们、先生们，我们现在开始 2674 次消除种族歧视公约会议开始，我首先代表委 员会就是联合国的消除种族歧视委员会荣幸地有这样的一个机会欢迎极为热烈地欢迎中华 人民共和国的代表，我们的责任是接待中华人民共和国的代表，他们是联合国安理会的成 员，在国际上得到了承认，我祝贺尊敬的中华人民共和国代表团，他们递交了有关涉及到 种族这一议题的国别报告，因此我祝贺中华人民共和国代表团，他们是本委员会接待到最 隆重的代表团之一，因此本委员会的全体成员感到非常荣幸。
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关注酷刑受害人实用手册 关注酷刑受害人：实用知识 纪念6月26日“支持酷刑受害人国际日” 2016年1月更新版 目录 前言 1.关注遭受过酷刑的人：明确目的 2.了解遭受酷刑者的护理需求：设身处地 3.普通人能为遭受酷刑者的心理康复做点什么？ 4.访谈酷刑受害人须知 5.请专业心理医师提供帮助 6. 设立关注酷刑受害人的帮扶团队资料来源及参考材料
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Huang Yunmin, an ex-judge-turned-legal advocate from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, was sentenced to 10 years in prison following a trial in September 2017. Kashgar Prefecture Intermediate People’s Court convicted him of “organizing, leading, and actively participating in a terrorist organization.” Police in Tumxuk (图木舒克), a city in Kashgar Prefecture, (read more…)
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In the last few days of 2019, Chinese police detained and summoned for questioning a dozen activists and lawyers in Fujian, Shandong, Beijing, Hebei, Sichuan, and Zhejiang. The raids appear to target individuals who attended a small, private gathering in Fujian on December 13. A similar gathering took place one (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on November 27, 2019 Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have moved an independent journalist detained after covering the Hong Kong protest movement to an unknown location, RFA has learned.“After detaining #MeToo movement leader Sophia Huang Xueqin on 10/17,the Chinese gov’t transferred her to “residential (read more…)
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Originally published by The Irish Times on November 24, 2019 A road construction worker from Xinjiang who urged his colleagues to pray before meals and not to watch pornography was sent to jail for 10 years. Details of the case are contained in the leaked China Cables. The sentencing document for the 50-year old Uighur (read more…)
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He Fangmei, an advocate for vaccination safety, was criminally detained in March 2019, after being forcibly returned to her home province of Henan from Beijing. Ms. He had been in Beijing demonstrating with other families whose children had been stricken with illness or disability due to faulty vaccines. Her detention (read more…)
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