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Submission to UN on FU Changguo, LI Zhan, LIU Penghua, MI Jiuping and YU Juncong, – March 13, 2019

April 1, 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 Holds Vaccine Parent-Turned-Activist Detained At Beijing Protest

March 30, 2019 Comments Off

Originally published by Radio Free Asia on March 26, 2019 Authorities in China are holding a prominent parent campaigner undercriminal detention after she helped to organized protests over faultyvaccines last month.He Fangmei, the mother of a baby made sick by a faulty vaccine, wasinitially detained by police from her home (read more…)

China Detains Several Social Economic Rights Defenders Days After UN Rights Review Ends

March 26, 2019 Comments Off

Several human rights defenders working on socio-economic rights issues have been detained just days after the close of China’s 3rdUniversal Periodic Review (UPR) in Geneva on March 15 during the 40th Session of the Human Rights Council (HRC). The timing of the detentions indicates that authorities waited until after the (read more…)

Ge Jueping 戈觉平

March 22, 2019 Comments Off

Ge Jueping, a Jiangsu activist who had taken part in an array of advocacy campaigns, was among a group of individuals seized while demonstrating outside the Suzhou City Intermediate People’s Court on September 8, 2016. The activists were protesting what they felt was the court’s mishandling of the case of (read more…)

State Dept.: 800K to 2 Million Muslims Forced Into ‘Internment Camps’ in Communist China

March 22, 2019 Comments Off

Originally published by CNS News on March 19, 2019 (CNSNews.com) — The U.S. State Department, echoing reports by human rights groups and some news media, reported that between 800,000 and 2 million Muslims have been forced into “internment camps” in Communist China where they are reeducated “to erase religious and ethnic (read more…)

Concerns Grow Over Chinese Influence at UN Human Rights Council

March 20, 2019 Comments Off

Originally published by Radio Free Asia on March 15, 2019 Rights activists are increasingly worried that Beijing’s influence operations are having a negative impact on the work of the United Nations Human Rights Council, which concludes its 40th session on Friday. Human Rights Watch (HRW) China director Sophie Richardson warned (read more…)

UN Calls For Probe Into Activist’s Death As Beijing Rejects Rights Report

March 20, 2019 Comments Off

Originally published by Radio Free Asia on March 14, 2019 Experts at the United Nations have called on Beijing to launch an independent investigation into the death of a Chinese human rights activist in a police detention center five years ago, as Beijing faces growing pressure over international criticism of (read more…)

Xinjiang denies existence of Uighur detention camps in China

March 20, 2019 Comments Off

Originally published by Nikkei Asian Review on March 12, 2019 BEIJING — Officials from China’s remote western region of Xinjiang on Tuesday denied the existence of concentration camps for ethnic Uighur people, saying instead that many Muslims there attended schools aimed at eliminating terrorism. They are vocational school-style training centers (read more…)

Ji Sizun Named 2019 Recipient of Cao Shunli Memorial Award for Human Rights Defenders

March 14, 2019 Comments Off

Human rights defender Ji Sizun (纪斯尊) is the winner of the fifth Cao Shunli Memorial Award for Human Rights Defenders. The decision to give this award to Mr. Ji recognizes the long-standing “barefoot lawyer” for his contribution in promoting legal rights and education at the grassroots level in China.

Jiang Yefei 姜野飞

March 13, 2019 Comments Off

Jiang Yefei, a longtime rights activist and political cartoonist, was given a 6.5-year prison sentence in July 2018, following over 30 months in pre-trial custody. Jiang had been detained in November 2015 after he was forcibly repatriated to China from Thailand. When put under formal arrest in May 2016, Jiang (read more…)

Submission to UN on Wang Yi and Jiang Rong – February, 2019

March 11, 2019 Comments Off

Communiqué on Behalf of Wang Yi and Jiang Rong, Citizens of the People’s Republic of China, Alleging Arbitrary Detention and Violations of Rights to Free Expression, Assembly, Association, and Religion

Chinese Women Who Fight For Rights Remain at Risk: Group

March 11, 2019 Comments Off

Women who campaign for human rights in China face reprisals from theruling Chinese Communist Party, including enforced disappearances,arbitrary detention, sexual abuse and torture, an overseas rights group has said.