Originally published by AFP on January 2, 2020 BEIJING – Over a dozen Chinese lawyers and activists were detained or went missing in the final days of 2019 in a crackdown on participants of a private democracy gathering, rights groups said Thursday. The Chinese government has severely reduced the space for civil (read more…)
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Originally published by Abacus News on February 02,2020 While trawling through WeChat looking for ways to protect myself against the deadly new coronavirus plaguing China, I received a piece of advice: Drink vinegar. And that’s not all. It seems the social network is full of ways to stay protected, like (read more…)
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Originally published by DW on January 02,2020 The latest crackdown against over a dozen lawyers and activists was reportedly linked to a gathering in the city of Xiamen, where participants discussed China’s democratic transition. Rights groups slammed the arrests. More than a dozen Chinese lawyers and activists are reportedly missing or (read more…)
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Originally published by The Straits Times on December 31, 2019 Chinese state media outlets have come out in full-throated condemnation of the latest foreign reporting on detentions in Xinjiang, as Beijing tries to wrest control of the media narrative on its policy to build re-education camps, which it calls vocational training (read more…)
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Originally published by The Guardian on December 10, 2019 As China hosts hundreds of lawyers from around the world, dozens of prominent Chinese rights lawyers remain detained, according to rights advocates who have criticised the event as “a mockery”. On Tuesday China held the second day of the global lawyers forum, coinciding with (read more…)
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Originally published by The Daily Targum on December 9, 2019 For much of the last decade, the Uighur people of Xinjiang have been subject to discriminatory surveillance, oppression, internment and many other forms of state-sponsored abuse at the hands of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Xinjiang party leader Chen Quanguo. In (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on November 27, 2019 Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have moved an independent journalist detained after covering the Hong Kong protest movement to an unknown location, RFA has learned.“After detaining #MeToo movement leader Sophia Huang Xueqin on 10/17,the Chinese gov’t transferred her to “residential (read more…)
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Originally published by The Irish Times on November 24, 2019 A road construction worker from Xinjiang who urged his colleagues to pray before meals and not to watch pornography was sent to jail for 10 years. Details of the case are contained in the leaked China Cables. The sentencing document for the 50-year old Uighur (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on October 29, 2019 Rights groups have called on the ruling Chinese Communist Party torelease an independent journalist held on public order charges after she covered the Hong Kong protest movement.Huang Xueqin, also known as Sophia Huang, was detained on Oct. 17 bypolice in Guangdong’s provincial (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on October 24, 2019 Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have detained an outspoken writer and #MeToo movement activist after she published an article about the Hong Kong protest movement.Huang Xueqin, also known as Sophia Huang, was detained on Oct. 17 bypolice in Guangdong’s provincial (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia in October 21, 2019 Rights activists on Monday called for the release of Shanghai activist Chen Jianfang, who has been held incommunicado for more than six months on subversion charges, saying she is at high risk of torture.Chen was detained on March 20 alongside her husband, and the couple’disappeared’ for several (read more…)
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Originally published by The Guardian in September 28, 2019 Human rights advocates are calling for an investigation into the death of a Chinese activist who was arrested for holding up a placard calling for Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) to step down. Wang Meiyu (王美余), 38, was detained in July (read more…)
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