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Oenegés y legisladores de 31 países critican la sentencia en Hong Kong contra Jimmy Lai

February 9, 2026 Comments Off

Pekín, 9 feb (EFE).- La red de oenegés Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) y la Alianza Interparlamentaria sobre China (IPAC) reclamaron hoy la liberación del magnate mediático hongkonés Jimmy Lai tras ser sentenciado a 20 años de prisión por conspiración con fuerzas extranjeras y difusión de publicaciones consideradas sediciosas.

Hong Kong Court Sentences Jimmy Lai to 20 Years

February 9, 2026 Comments Off

Several international advocacy groups, including Human Rights Watch and Reporters Without Borders, condemned the sentence. Angeli Datt, the research and advocacy coordinator of Chinese Human Rights Defenders, expressed concern that Mr. Lai’s health issues would not be treated. “Beijing has shown its willingness to let defenders die in detention, an (read more…)

China overturns Canadian man’s death sentence

February 7, 2026 Comments Off

Angeli Datt, research and advocacy coordinator at Chinese Human Rights Defenders, said that human rights experts have long suspected that Schellenberg’s death sentence was the result of geopolitical tensions between China and Canada. “It’s hard to ignore the timing of Carney’s recent visit and this development on his case,” she (read more…)

China Reverses Death Sentence for Canadian in a Small Win for Carney

February 6, 2026 Comments Off

Angeli Datt, research and advocacy coordinator at Chinese Human Rights Defenders, said that human rights experts have long suspected that Mr. Schellenberg’s death sentence was the result of geopolitical tensions between China and Canada. “It’s hard to ignore the timing of Carney’s recent visit and this development on his case,” (read more…)

Rights groups say China detained two journalists over corruption report

February 4, 2026 Comments Off

According to Chinese Human Rights Defenders, which is a coalition of Chinese and international activists and groups, Liu had planned to take a train from his home city of Chongqing to the capital Beijing on Sunday when he went missing.

Hong Kong authorities criticized for prosecuting Tiananmen crackdown commemorators

January 23, 2026 Comments Off

Organizing a candlelight vigil to call for justice for victims of a massacre and democracy in China is not a threat to national security – it is a form of expression and assembly guaranteed by international human rights law. This trial is a sham, designed to make repression appear legitimate. (read more…)

Hong Kong begins national security trial of organisers of Tiananmen Square vigil group

January 23, 2026 Comments Off

On Wednesday, Angeli Datt, research and advocacy coordinator at the Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD), said in a statement: “Organising a candlelight vigil to call for justice for victims of a massacre and democracy in China is not a threat to national security – it is a form (read more…)

Hong Kong begins national security trial for organisers of Tiananmen vigils

January 23, 2026 Comments Off

Angeli Datt, research and advocacy coordinator at the Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders, condemned the trial as a “sham”.

Chinese man documenting rights abuses in China detained by ICE, may be deported to Uganda

December 18, 2025 Comments Off

Heng Guan is a Chinese citizen from central China. In 2020, he read about mass detentions and other human rights abuses against Uyghurs in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang, and he decided to go see for himself. The video he put on social media in 2021 provided valuable confirmation (read more…)

人權日：27組織促港府釋放國安被告鄒幸彤和李卓人 CHRD籲中國放長期判刑犯

December 11, 2025 Comments Off

人權備受打壓的香港，其居民日益成為國際組織在世界人權日爭取釋放的對象。在是世界人權日的今(10日)天，國際特赦組織聯合國際工會聯合會等27個關注人權狀況的組織發表聯合聲明，呼籲港府撤銷以《港區國安法》控告多年來舉辦悼念六四活動的支聯會之前主席李卓人和前副主席鄒幸彤，並立即釋放二人。

China’s ‘White Paper’ Protests: 3 Years Later

November 26, 2025 Comments Off

Three years ago this week, people across China, outraged by a deadly fire in Urumqi and profoundly frustrated by the government’s harsh “zero-COVID” policies, took part in impromptu protests, some of the most visible expressions public discontent since the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy demonstrations. Most chose to simply hold aloft blank pieces (read more…)

Radio Free Asia suspends operations after Trump cuts and shutdown

October 30, 2025 Comments Off

Radio Free Asia, founded nearly three decades ago to report on China and other Asian countries without independent media, said Wednesday it will halt production after the US government ceased funding. The broadcaster had already laid off or furloughed more than 90 percent of staff and drastically scaled back production (read more…)