The Chinese government must take effective steps to end discrimination against Hubei residents and African migrants. Discriminatory mistreatment violates Chinese law and international human rights law.
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（人权捍卫者网络CHRD — 2020年4月1日）中国政府必须释放被羁押的公民记者和直言不讳的批评者，并结束自新冠肺炎爆发以来对网络言论自由的新一轮镇压。中国当局打着抗击新型冠状病毒的幌子，通过屏蔽独立报导、疫情信息共享和对政府应对措施的批评意见，加大了对网络言论信息的压制力度。攻击性的网络警巡和侵入性的在线监测，在政府最初掩盖疫情和阻碍重要信息流通方面发挥了关键作用，也造成了对紧急应变的严重延误和生命损失。
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Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang is expected to be released after completing his sentence on 5 April 2020. Wang Quanzhang was arrested during the 709 Crackdown in 2015. After being secretly detained for more than 1200 days, he was tried behind closed doors on 26 December 2018, and was (read more…)
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(Chinese Human Rights Defenders—April 1, 2020) The Chinese government must release detained citizen journalists and outspoken critics, and end the new crackdown on free expression online since the start of COVID-19 outbreak. Under the guise of fighting the novel coronavirus, authorities in China have escalated suppression online by blocking independent (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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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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（中国人权捍卫者—2020年1月31日）中国政府在应对2019新型冠状病毒爆发时必须尊重人权，包括取消审查、停止警方恐吓和任意拘留、放宽无差别的出行限制以及消除针对武汉和湖北省居民社会歧视。人权绝不能成为政府遏制新冠病毒爆发措施的牺牲品。据中国官方数据，截止到2月3日，新冠疫情已导致370人死亡，数百万人受到各种影响。媒体和互联网信息的自由流动、民间社会的参与以及便利的物资和急救人员的及时行动和调配，对于有效应对这次全球卫生紧急状况十分必要。
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(Chinese Human Rights Defenders—January 31, 2020) The Chinese government must respect human rights in its response to the 2019-nCoV coronavirus outbreak, including lifting censorship, ceasing police intimidation and arbitrary detention, easing indiscriminate restrictions on movement, and countering social discrimination against Wuhan and Hubei Province residents. Human rights must not be (read more…)
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(Chinese Human Rights Defenders—January 15, 2020) In an indication of escalation of the December rounding-up of lawyers and activists, Chinese police detained human rights lawyer Chang Weiping in Shaanxi Province. Police told Chang’s family that he was put under residential surveillance in an unknown location on suspicion of “endangering national (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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（2019年11月25日）聯合國人權高級專員、聯合國負責人權事務的最高級別官員米歇爾·巴切萊特（Michelle Bachelet）必須公開譴責香港政府系統性侵犯和平集會自由和言論自由權利，並譴責香港警方不必要和過度使用武力的行為。
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（2019年11月25日）联合国人权高级专员、联合国负责人权事务的最高级别官员米歇尔·巴切莱特（Michelle Bachelet）必须公开谴责香港政府系统性侵犯和平集会自由和言论自由权利，并谴责香港警方不必要和过度使用武力的行为。
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