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CHRD Communiqué Alleging Arbitrary Detentions of 3 Labour Rights Defenders in PR China – July 11, 2019

July 23, 2019 Comments Off

Submission to: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Working Group on enforced and involuntary disappearances Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of (read more…)

Fu Changguo 付常国

July 18, 2019 Comments Off

Fu Changguo 付常国 Criminal charge: Gathering a crowd to disturb public order Length of Punishment: N/A Court: N/A Trial Date: N/A Sentencing Date: N/A Dates of Detention/Arrest: August 10, 2018 (detention); September 8, 2018 (formal arrest) Place of Incarceration: Current location unknown; previously detained at Shenzhen City No. 2 Detention Center Background Fu Changguo, a staff member (read more…)

联合国人权机制实用指南 — 系列视频（共四集）Guide to Using United Nations Human Rights Mechanisms — Video Series (4 Films)

July 16, 2019 Comments Off

使用国际人权机制可以加强这些倡导活动，效果会更好，例如，参与联合国人权机制的运作，向国际社会介绍中国的人权状况，与国际非政府组织合作，通过国际媒体扩散有关信息。

联合国人权理事会特别程序独立专家要求中国政府就侵犯佳士工人权利事宜答问

July 9, 2019 Comments Off

联合国人权理事会特别程序独立专家要求中国政府就侵犯佳士工人权利事宜答问

联合国专家应该就中国出台的限制律师权益的法规发声

July 9, 2019 Comments Off

在“709打压”律师四周年之际，国际社会必须要对持续恶化的中国人权律师处境发出抗议的声音。

UN Experts: Speak Out on Legislative Measures Restricting Rights of Lawyers in China

July 9, 2019 Comments Off

On the fourth anniversary of a widespread crackdown on legal rights defenders by the Chinese authorities, the international community must speak out against the continued deterioration of conditions for human rights lawyers in China.

倡議香港政府成立獨立調查委員會的公開信

June 30, 2019 Comments Off

我們就香港警察在2019年6月12日政府總部一帶對示威者使用武力，包括催淚氣體、使用槍械發射布袋彈和橡膠子彈、警棍、胡椒噴劑和水劑，要求香港政府就上述事宜盡快展開獨立、公正及有效的調查

Open Letter from 35 NGOs Calling For An Independent Commission Of Inquiry into Use of Force by Hong Kong Police on June 12, 2019

June 30, 2019 Comments Off

We are writing to urge the Hong Kong government to carry out an independent, impartial, effective and prompt investigation into the use of force, including tear gas, guns firing bean bag rounds and rubber bullets, batons and pepper spray by the Hong Kong police against protesters at the vicinity of (read more…)

Communiqué on Chen Shuqing and Lü Gengsong – June 10, 2019

June 28, 2019 Comments Off

Submission to: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention 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 of association Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment Special (read more…)

China’s Mass Interment Camps Have No Clear End in Sight

June 19, 2019 Comments Off

Originally published by Foreign Policy on August 22, 2018 Last summer, online links between China’s western Xinjiang region and the rest of the world began to go dark. Uighurs, who make up the largest ethnic group in Xinjiang, started cutting friends and family members abroad from their contacts on WeChat, (read more…)

Security Tight on Tiananmen Square as Victims’ Relatives Pay Respects on Massacre Anniversary

June 19, 2019 Comments Off

Originally published by Radio Free Asia on June 4, 2019 Chinese security personnel flooded Beijing’s iconic Tiananmen Square on Tuesday, the 30th anniversary of the massacre of unarmed civilians by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) that put an end to weeks of peaceful, student-led protests. One eyewitness said there was (read more…)

He Stayed at Tiananmen to the End. Now He Wonders What It Meant.

June 19, 2019 Comments Off

Originally published by The New York Times on June 3, 2019 BEIJING — As daybreak neared on June 4, 1989, Zhou Duo walked toward the ranks of soldiers bristling with guns. Behind him, thousands of protesters huddled on Tiananmen Square, terrified that the encroaching troops would slaughter them on China’s (read more…)