In the Press | Chinese Human Rights Defenders

China to Try Magnate Sun Dawu As Rights Group Calls For His Release

July 14, 2021 Comments Off

Originally published by RFA on July 14, 2021 Authorities in the northern Chinese province of Hebei are preparing to hold the trial of outspoken billionaire Sun Dawu on Thursday, as an overseas rights group called for his immediate release.Sun, a former farmer, was detained in April 2021 alongside dozens of Dawu Agricultural and Animal Husbandry (read more…)

China studies scholars reluctant to return to China

July 3, 2021 Comments Off

Originally published by University World News on July 3, 2021 Many scholars with decades of China expertise and scholars who conduct fieldwork in China from time to time say they are reluctant to return to China even after coronavirus restrictions are lifted, in part because of a deteriorating geopolitical climate, (read more…)

Mick Wallace: Reports of one million Uighur people detained in China ‘grossly exaggerated’

July 1, 2021 Comments Off

Originally published by Newstalk on July 1, 2021 Ireland South MEP Mick Wallace has said reports one million Uighur people are being detained by the Chinese Government are “grossly exaggerated.” On Newstalk Breakfast this morning, the Wexford politician doubled down on his claim that China looks after its people better (read more…)

‘Mourn June 4 in your own way’: Tiananmen Square events vanish amid crackdowns and Covid

June 3, 2021 Comments Off

Originally published by The Guardian on Jun 3, 2021 For the first time since the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, there will be no formal commemoration event held in the Chinese-speaking world for the anniversary. Thirty-two years after soldiers crushed student protests in Beijing and killed anywhere from several hundred to (read more…)

Oscar win shines spotlight on censorship in China

April 30, 2021 Comments Off

Originally published by TRT World on April 30, 2021 Multiple Oscar-winning film Nomadland was directed by a Chinese director, but the film isn’t being celebrated in her home country. States can deflect criticisms of human rights abuses with ease, but it is far harder for governments to dull the impact of (read more…)

Another dissident died in China’s hellish prisons — will we remember him?

April 27, 2021 Comments Off

Originally published by New York Post on April 27, 2021 On April 9, Chinese political prisoner Guo Hongwei, 48 and serving a 13-year sentence in northeastern Jilin province, died under mysterious circumstances. The “crime” he was in prison for: supporting Hong Kong democracy. Authorities took Guo to the Guowen Hospital (read more…)

In China, delivery workers struggle against a rigged system

April 20, 2021 Comments Off

Originally published by SupChina on April 20, 2021 In mid-February, Chén Guójiāng 陈国江, who leads an alliance of food delivery workers in China numbering in the thousands, confronted the delivery platform Ele.me, owned by Alibaba, for its exploitative policies. He published a video accusing Ele.me of failing to deliver on (read more…)

Rights Activist Held in Psychiatric Facility in China’s Shandong Province

March 16, 2021 Comments Off

Originally published by RFA on March 16, 2021 Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong have formally arrested prominent rights activist Li Qiaochu, and are holding her in a psychiatric hospital in Linyi city, RFA has learned.Li, who was recently given the Cao Shunli Memorial Award for her rights (read more…)

Chinese Feminist, Anti-Camps Campaigner Honored With Rights Prize

March 12, 2021 Comments Off

Originally published by RFA on March 12, 2021 Detained women’s rights activist Li Qiaochu and veteran rights campaigner Li Yufeng have been announced as the joint winners of a prestigious human rights prize made annually to Chinese activists mark the March 14, 2014 death in police custody of rights advocate (read more…)

Concerns Grow For ‘Disappeared’ Wuhan Citizen Journalist

March 9, 2021 Comments Off

Originally published by RFA on March 9, 2021 Chinese citizen journalist Fang Bin remains missing after being detained by police in the central city of Wuhan for reporting from the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. Fang is being held incommunicado following his detention on March 5, 2020. RFA has learned (read more…)

Westerners are increasingly scared of traveling to China as threat of detention rises

March 9, 2021 Comments Off

Originally published by CNN on March 9, 2021 (CNN) Jeff Wasserstrom is a self-proclaimed China specialist who is seriously considering never returning to China — at least, he says, not while President Xi Jinping is in power. The American professor, who for decades made multiple trips a year to China (read more…)

Turkey’s Uighur exiles raise voices against China amid Erdogan’s silence

February 25, 2021 Comments Off

Originally published by La Prensa Latina Media on February 11, 2021 Istanbul, Feb 11 (efe-epa).- The 50,000-strong community of exiled Uighurs in Istanbul have in recent weeks stepped up their protests against the alleged repression by Beijing of their people in their western Chinese homeland of Xinjiang, amid fears that (read more…)