人權日：27組織促港府釋放國安被告鄒幸彤和李卓人 CHRD籲中國放長期判刑犯
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人權備受打壓的香港，其居民日益成為國際組織在世界人權日爭取釋放的對象。在是世界人權日的今(10日)天，國際特赦組織聯合國際工會聯合會等27個關注人權狀況的組織發表聯合聲明，呼籲港府撤銷以《港區國安法》控告多年來舉辦悼念六四活動的支聯會之前主席李卓人和前副主席鄒幸彤，並立即釋放二人。
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Radio Free Asia suspends operations after Trump cuts and shutdown
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Radio Free Asia, founded nearly three decades ago to report on China and other Asian countries without independent media, said Wednesday it will halt production after the US government ceased funding. The broadcaster had already laid off or furloughed more than 90 percent of staff and drastically scaled back production (read more…)
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The lure of China
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Beijing’s biggest fish bazaar is a briny-smelling maze of stalls stocked with massive crabs from Russia, purple lobster from Australia and yellow croaker fish from China’s southeastern coast. What’s increasingly hard to find at Jingshen Seafood Market, however, are products from Canada: the casualties of a punishing trade war between (read more…)
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海南：CHRD报道被任意拘留的律师遭受酷刑
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米兰（亚洲新闻/通讯社）—中国人权捍卫者关注被拘留在海南省三亚的年轻律师张文鹏（Zhang Wenpeng）的命运。他于2025年7月14日被控“寻觅滋事”－这是一项用来压制一切形式异见的罪名。根据中国人权捍卫者（CHRD）网络报道，人们担心他随时可能被判处重刑。
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Hainan: CHRD reports torture against arbitrarily detained lawyer
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Milan (AsiaNews/Agencies) – Human rights defenders in China are concerned about the fate of Zhang Wenpeng, a young lawyer detained in Sanya, Hainan province. Charged with ‘picking quarrels and provoking trouble’ – a charge used to suppress all forms of dissent – he was indicted on 14 July 2025 and, (read more…)
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Zhang Zhan: who is the Chinese citizen journalist facing a second trial?
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A Chinese citizen journalist who was jailed after reporting from the frontlines of the Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan is to face trial for a second time, according to human rights activists and media freedom groups.
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Rights advocates demand UN press China on abuses
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Uighurs and rights advocates on Tuesday decried lame global action over a damning 2022 UN report detailing torture and sweeping abuses in China’s Xinjiang region. Members of China’s Uighur minority joined non-governmental organizations on the sidelines of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, to urge UN High Commissioner (read more…)
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China Introduces National Cyber ID Amid Privacy Concerns
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China’s national online ID service went into affect earlier this month, promising to increase user privacy by reducing the amount of data collected by private-sector companies, but privacy and digital rights activists continued to criticize the measures as increasing government control over citizens’ online lives.
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China’s New Internet Law Raises Privacy Fears for 1 Billion Users
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China has officially launched internet identification requirements that rights groups have warned will further curtail online anonymity and increase the risks for freedom of speech in what is already one of the world’s strictest online censorship and surveillance systems.
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China toughens national security 10 years after ‘709’ crackdown
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TOKYO — In the decade since China’s widespread crackdown on human rights lawyers and advocates, Beijing has enhanced the national security apparatus to further suppress civil society.
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Chinese dissidents: Peng Lifa, Beijing’s banner man sentenced to nine years in prison
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According to anonymous sources, the dissident who publicly challenged “dictator Xi Jinping” in October 2022 and inspired the “blank paper” protest against the zero-COVID policy has been tried and convicted. Human rights groups are calling on Beijing to disclose his whereabouts and provide details about his trial. The case comes (read more…)
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China’s ‘White Paper’ Protests: 3 Years Later
November 26, 2025 Comments Off on China’s ‘White Paper’ Protests: 3 Years LaterThree years ago this week, people across China, outraged by a deadly fire in Urumqi and profoundly frustrated by the government’s harsh “zero-COVID” policies, took part in impromptu protests, some of the most visible expressions public discontent since the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy demonstrations. Most chose to simply hold aloft blank pieces (read more…)
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