In the Press | Chinese Human Rights Defenders

How one man went from China’s Communist party golden child to enemy of the state

April 17, 2023 Comments Off

Xu Zhiyong’s dream is for China to become a democratic country that is “beautiful, free, fair and happy.” It is a simple wish, yet in the eyes of the authorities, his vision is dangerous and subversive. The 50-year-old human rights lawyer and champion of social equality was sentenced to 14 years in jail earlier (read more…)

China jails two human rights lawyers for ‘subversion’

April 10, 2023 Comments Off

Two prominent Chinese human rights lawyers, including one who had called for leader Xi Jinping to resign, have been jailed for more than 10 years, an advocacy group and one of the men’s wives said.

“厦门聚会案”判决出炉丁家喜许志永刑期逾十年

April 10, 2023 Comments Off

“厦门聚会案”的两位主要被告丁家喜跟许志永在被关押超过三年后，週一被山东省一个法院以“顛復国家政权罪”判处12年与14年的刑期。家属痛批中国当局的作法，而专家也说，这显示任何在中国提倡自由与民主的人，都会受到严厉的打击。

China Sentences Human-Rights Activists to Prison for Subversion

April 10, 2023 Comments Off

SINGAPORE—A Chinese court sentenced two of the country’s most prominent human-rights activists to prison terms of more than a decade each for subversion, slamming the door on an era of activism that briefly carved out space for liberal values in the authoritarian country.

China’s zero-covid protesters helped end the lockdowns. Where are they now?

February 23, 2023 Comments Off

In China, life has returned to something like the pre-covid normal. You no longer need to show a green health QR code to enter public places or swab your throat every other day for mandatory PCR testing, and lockdowns are a thing of the past. But some of the people (read more…)

Journalist held without trial in China said to need urgent medical attention

February 16, 2023 Comments Off

Advocates of Huang Xueqin accuse authorities of ‘trying to exert mental pressure and physical torture’

Trial of the ‘Hong Kong 47’ symbolises China’s attempts to dissolve civil society

February 15, 2023 Comments Off

Experts say Chinese authorities want to send the message that critical voices deemed a threat to the regime will be erased

‘We just want to live in a normal world’: China’s young protesters speak out, and disappear

February 7, 2023 Comments Off

‘Blank Paper movement’ decrying government policies rekindles dissent after Xi Jinping’s decade of iron-fisted crackdowns

Hong Kong 47: trial of dozens in pro-democracy movement set to begin under national security laws

February 4, 2023 Comments Off

Group of legislators, activists and community workers are accused of holding unofficial pre-election primaries that authorities say constitutes subversion

Democracy ‘on trial’ as Hong Kong 47 prepare to face court

February 3, 2023 Comments Off

Picked up in a dawn raid two years ago, the activists and politicians are charged over an unofficial primary they organised ahead of a legislative election, which was later postponed.

Legal exodus in Hong Kong: Liberal lawyers flee after facing Chinese threats

January 9, 2023 Comments Off

In a systematic effort to cleanse the city of dissent, some leading human rights lawyers in Hong Kong have been arrested in the past two-and-a-half years and many others have come under the radar of the ruling Communist Party in China.

China v Jimmy Lai: a tycoon, a trial and the erosion of Hong Kong’s rule of law

December 15, 2022 Comments Off

The pro-democracy figure has been subjected to a ‘travesty of justice’ because the Communist party regards his power as a threat, experts believe.