Originally published by RSF News on May 25, 2019 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the release of Ma Xiao, a Chinese citizen-journalist who published a series of political prisoners’ interviews and has been detained for a month. Beijing-based citizen-journalist Xie Qiang, known under the pen name of Ma Xiao, (read more…)
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Originally published by Artnet news on May 22, 2019 Chinese authorities have detained Deng Chuanbin, an independent filmmaker and activist also known as Huang Huang, for tweeting a photo alluding to the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989. Early on the morning of May 17, just hours after posting the photo, authorities arrived (read more…)
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Originally published by The Ghion Journal on May 15, 2019 Americans are being manipulated by a campaign to make us consent to what’s effectively a paradigm of constant war with China. It’s not a clearcut case of preparing the public for a direct military invasion against the targeted country, as (read more…)
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Originally published by The Guardian on May 9, 2019 Every year in late May, Hu Jia is taken on a mandatory holiday to Qinhuangdao, a port city almost 200 miles from his home in Beijing. He is accompanied by police on walks in the park or by the sea and (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on May 6, 2019 Chinese writer and rights activist Xie Qiang, who signed a 2008 charter calling for sweeping political reform, is incommunicado, believed detained, after receiving an unexpected phone call from police, his friends said. Xie, who is better known by his pen-name (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on May 1, 2019 Rights activists and politicians in Taiwan have called on authorities in China to allow jailed rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang visits from his family and his lawyer, warning that his case should act as a “big red flag” to the people of Taiwan.Wang’s wife (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on March 26, 2019 Authorities in China are holding a prominent parent campaigner undercriminal detention after she helped to organized protests over faultyvaccines last month.He Fangmei, the mother of a baby made sick by a faulty vaccine, wasinitially detained by police from her home (read more…)
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Originally published by CNS News on March 19, 2019 (CNSNews.com) — The U.S. State Department, echoing reports by human rights groups and some news media, reported that between 800,000 and 2 million Muslims have been forced into “internment camps” in Communist China where they are reeducated “to erase religious and ethnic (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on March 15, 2019 Rights activists are increasingly worried that Beijing’s influence operations are having a negative impact on the work of the United Nations Human Rights Council, which concludes its 40th session on Friday. Human Rights Watch (HRW) China director Sophie Richardson warned (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on March 14, 2019 Experts at the United Nations have called on Beijing to launch an independent investigation into the death of a Chinese human rights activist in a police detention center five years ago, as Beijing faces growing pressure over international criticism of (read more…)
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Originally published by Nikkei Asian Review on March 12, 2019 BEIJING — Officials from China’s remote western region of Xinjiang on Tuesday denied the existence of concentration camps for ethnic Uighur people, saying instead that many Muslims there attended schools aimed at eliminating terrorism. They are vocational school-style training centers (read more…)
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Women who campaign for human rights in China face reprisals from theruling Chinese Communist Party, including enforced disappearances,arbitrary detention, sexual abuse and torture, an overseas rights group has said.
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