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China cracks down on human rights activists ahead of Winter Olympics next month

January 20, 2022 Comments Off

Originally published by ANI on 20 January, 2022 Chinese authorities are detaining human rights activists to strike out any potential dissent and criticism right ahead of the next month’s Winter Olympics. Free-speech advocate Yang Maodong was detained for undermining the Chinese authority on January 12, reported Wall Street Journal. Notably, Yang, (read more…)

China Detains Prominent Activists as Olympics Near, Citing State Security

January 19, 2022 Comments Off

By Chao Deng Originally published by The Wall Street Journal on 19 January, 2022 Appeared in the January 20, 2022, print edition as ‘China Detains Activists Ahead of the Olympics.’ Detention of free-speech advocate Yang Maodong, missing since December, is confirmed days after wife’s death from cancer in the U.S. (read more…)

Olympic Athletes To Be Seen, Not Heard, Warns Beijing Organizing Committee

January 19, 2022 Comments Off

By Joseph Brouwer Originally published by China Digital Times on 19 January, 2022 Olympians may face punishment for speech crimes if they criticize China while competing in Beijing, a member of the Beijing Organizing Committee warned in a press conference Tuesday. Prior to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the International Olympic Committee (read more…)

Wife of activist barred from leaving China dies after 15 years apart

January 11, 2022 Comments Off

Originally published by France 24 on 11 January, 2022 Beijing (AFP) – The wife of a repeatedly detained Chinese human rights lawyer died of cancer on Monday in the United States after her husband’s pleas to be allowed to leave China and reunite with her went ignored, rights activists said. Zhang (read more…)

Caso Peng Shuai. Comissão dos Direitos Humanos do PE diz que “é inaceitável que os Jogos Olímpicos sejam na China”

January 11, 2022 Comments Off

Originally published by Expresso on 2 December, 2021 A acusação de abuso sexual feita pela tenista Peng Shuai a um ex-vice-primeiro-ministro obriga a comunidade internacional a olhar para os direitos humanos na China. O das mulheres em especial. Houve progressos, mas preveem-se recuos com Xi Jinping. A Comissão dos Direitos (read more…)

Christmas as Usual: CCP Detains Human Rights Defenders

December 30, 2021 Comments Off

By Oliver Young Originally published by China Digital Times on 30 December, 2021 While many look forward to relaxing during the December holiday season, the CCP typically leverages foreign distraction during this period to crack down on Chinese human rights defenders. Among those targeted in a recent wave of persecutions (read more…)

Rights activists chide China’s infamous detention methods

December 29, 2021 Comments Off

Originally published by ANI on 29 December, 2021 Washington [US], December 29 (ANI): Human rights activists have chided China’s infamous Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location (RSDL), highlighting that Chinese authorities torture and forcibly hold people without providing them with the right to legal counsel. RSDL is a form of detention (read more…)

China holding people under secret residential surveillance system

December 29, 2021 Comments Off

Originally published by New Delhi on 29 December, 2021 Campaigners say China has ‘systematised arbitrary and secret detention’ by holding thousands of people under ‘Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location’ (RSDL), Al Jazeera reported. Spain-based rights group Safeguard Defenders say that as many as 27,208 to 56,963 people have gone (read more…)

Concerns grow for health of rights lawyer, dissident detained in Xiamen crackdown

December 27, 2021 Comments Off

Originally published by RFA on 27 December, 2021 Legal scholar Xu Zhiyong (L) and human rights lawyer Ding Jiaxi are shown in undated photos.RFA Two years after a Chinese human rights lawyer was detained on suspicion of “subversion” for taking part in a gathering in the southwestern Chinese city of (read more…)

Chinese Authorities Poised to Put Activists Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi On Trial, PEN America and China Human Rights Defenders Warn

December 20, 2021 Comments Off

Originally published by Pen America on 20 December, 2021 Tactic known as “Christmas surprise” likely in case against Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi (New York, NY) — Chinese authorities may use the lull around the Christmas and New Year’s holidays to subject prominent human rights defenders to unfair trials while much (read more…)

China jails dissident rights activist for four years

December 7, 2021 Comments Off

Originally published by Union of Catholic Asian News on 7 December, 2021 Chen Yunfei has been persecuted by authorities for years due to his staunch defense of human rights, groups say A court in southwest China has sentenced a prominent blogger and rights activist to four years in jail on charges (read more…)

Court in China’s Chengdu jails veteran rights activist on ‘trumped-up charge’

December 6, 2021 Comments Off

By Sun Cheng Translated and edited by Luisetta Mudie. Originally published by Radio Free Asia on 6 December, 2021 Chen Yunfei gets a four-year jail term he says is linked to his research into compulsory education in China. A court in the southwestern province of Sichuan has handed down a (read more…)