On the eve of the 30thanniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre, Chinese authorities took into custody activists and netizens to silence any expression or thwart any action aimed at commemorating the victims and mark the anniversary. So far, we have documented 10 individuals either detained or forced into disappearance in connection (read more…)
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Submission to: Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights (reprisals team) 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 torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment Working Group on (read more…)
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By Frances Eve | Originally published in The Guardian | Five years ago today, Chinese activist Cao Shunli died in a Beijing hospital surrounded by police. No state agent has been punished for her death.
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By Frances Eve | Originally published in The Guardian | Now is the time to act on China’s human rights abuses in Xinjiang. Countries afraid of standing up to China on their own can speak out on 6 November on a UN platform, known as the universal periodic review (UPR).
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By Frances Eve | Originally published in The Guardian | Quitting the UNHRC won’t make it disappear. It opens a leadership vacancy that China is happy to fill. The Trump administration has stepped back to allow China the space to dominate the council unchallenged.
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Tsegon Gyal, a prominent ethnic Tibetan writer and activist, received a prison sentence in January 2018 in apparent punishment for comments he wrote on WeChat criticizing the Chinese government for failing to genuinely promote its policy of “ethnic unity.” The verdict came down over eight months after a Qinghai court (read more…)
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Henan activist Dong Guangping received a 3.5-year prison sentence in July 2018 in retaliation for advocating for justice for the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre and for escaping persecution by fleeing to Thailand. Dong had fled to Thailand in September 2015 to escape police harassment. Authorities held Dong for (read more…)
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Originally published by The Guardian on May 9, 2019 Every year in late May, Hu Jia is taken on a mandatory holiday to Qinhuangdao, a port city almost 200 miles from his home in Beijing. He is accompanied by police on walks in the park or by the sea and (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on May 6, 2019 Chinese writer and rights activist Xie Qiang, who signed a 2008 charter calling for sweeping political reform, is incommunicado, believed detained, after receiving an unexpected phone call from police, his friends said. Xie, who is better known by his pen-name (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on May 1, 2019 Rights activists and politicians in Taiwan have called on authorities in China to allow jailed rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang visits from his family and his lawyer, warning that his case should act as a “big red flag” to the people of Taiwan.Wang’s wife (read more…)
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This video is about ordinary human rights defenders from various parts of the world. Human Rights Day, marked annually, is this year dedicated to human rights defenders who battle against discrimination.
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China’s Ethnic Cleansing Met with US Inaction under Global Magnitsky Law
May 26, 2019 Comments Off on China’s Ethnic Cleansing Met with US Inaction under Global Magnitsky LawBy Renee Xia & Frances Eve | The US Administration is squandering an opportunity to hold the Chinese government accountable for its atrocities in the Xinjiang region under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act.
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