Focus Campaigns | Chinese Human Rights Defenders

China: Protect Human Rights While Combatting Coronavirus Outbreak

January 31, 2020 Comments Off

(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…)

Zhou Yuanzhi 周远志

November 18, 2019 Comments Off

Zhou Yuanzhi, a writer and editor from Hubei Province, was handed a four-and-half-year prison sentence in July 2019, for his alleged efforts to help petitioners organize to present grievances to Chinese authorities, and for making “politically sensitive” online comments. After Zhou was initially detained in November 2017, he was issued (read more…)

《全球马格尼茨基人权问责法案》介绍

June 28, 2019 Comments Off

全球马格尼茨基法案是一项美国国内法，授权美国總統对侵害国际公认人权的肇事人及对腐败者实施制裁，例如禁止入境、冻结其在美国的财产。这意味着，被认定的肇事人将由美国政府公开宣布为人权侵害者，将被拒绝进入美国，其在美国境内的所有资产都不能动用，所有在美国的企业和银行都会被禁止与他们或他们的企业進行商業交易。

The Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act

June 28, 2019 Comments Off

(中文版本) The Global Magnitsky Act is a US domestic law that authorizes the US president to sanction perpetrators of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights and corruption through US-based asset freezes and visa bans. This means that designated perpetrators are publicly announced by the US government as human rights (read more…)

我们要求联合国调查中国政府天安门屠杀期间及续后30年对参与者和问责者的人权侵犯

June 17, 2019 Comments Off

借此纪念天安门民主运动和“六四”屠杀30周年的时刻，1989年学生领袖王丹与其他六四屠杀幸存者、目击者、89运动参与者，在非政府机构“人权维护者联网”协助下，向联合国人权理事会递交了一份申诉函，指控中国政府严重、系统、持续侵犯人权。

Why We Are Calling on the United Nations to Act Over the Tiananmen Massacre

June 17, 2019 Comments Off

By Wang Dan and Frances Eve | Chinese government has refused to allow any independent investigation nor hold anyone accountable for the slaughter in 1989. This is why we have filed a complaint with the UN Human Rights Council.

We Call on the Human Rights Council to take Action Over China’s 30 Years of Rights Violations Tied to 1989 Tiananmen Massacre

June 17, 2019 Comments Off

22 student leaders and victims and survivors of the Tiananmen Massacre, with assistance from CHRD, have submitted a complaint to the Human Rights Council over a consistent pattern of gross human rights violations by the Government of China in relation to the 1989 Massacre.

Suppression Ahead of 30th Anniversary of Tiananmen Massacre

May 30, 2019 Comments Off

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…)

Former 1989 Pro-Democracy Figures Currently Incarcerated for Continued Human Rights Activism

May 30, 2019 Comments Off

Ahead of the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre, CHRD has documented 19 cases involving 1989 protests leaders and participants who are currently detained or imprisoned in China for post-Tiananmen human rights activism. In further incomplete figures, we have found 3 individuals have been persecuted to death, and 6 former (read more…)

China’s Ethnic Cleansing Met with US Inaction under Global Magnitsky Law

May 26, 2019 Comments Off

By 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.

OPEN LETTER FROM NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS IN SUPPORT OF A TARGETED, GLOBAL EU HUMAN RIGHTS SANCTIONS REGIME

December 11, 2018 Comments Off

We, the 90 undersigned organizations dedicated to the promotion of universal human rights and/or the fight against corruption, write to voice our strong support for the Foreign Affairs Council to initiate a process aimed at establishing an EU-wide program for the imposition of targeted sanctions on individuals and entities deemed (read more…)

Yu Wensheng 余文生

September 8, 2018 Comments Off

Police seized lawyer Yu Wensheng (余文生) outside his Beijing home on January 19, 2018, as he was taking his son to school. Yu reportedly was forced into a police vehicle after an altercation between him and at least one officer.