(Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders, July 30, 2026) – CHRD welcomes the adoption of an opinion by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) that found the Chinese government’s imprisonment of computer programmer Niu Tengyu to be arbitrary, in violation of his rights to liberty, a fair (read more…)
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(Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders — July 23, 2026) Chinese authorities apprehended activist Zhang Yi on July 1 after he showed a photo of the Dalai Lama to a Tibetan at Sera Monastery in Lhasa. In recent days Zhang’s family received a notification stating that the Lhasa Public Security (read more…)
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Held in Thailand immigration detention since January 2026, Bai risks persecution if returned to China
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(Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders—July 9, 2026) Chinese authorities are proposing an amendment to the Lawyers Law that threatens lawyers’ ability to ensure access to justice. Lawyers will be required to “uphold the leadership of the Communist Party of China” and its “socialist rule of law,” while law firms (read more…)
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(Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders—July 1, 2026) Chinese authorities’ ongoing prosecution of individuals based on their religious belief is marred by multiple violations of fair trial rights. A lawyer representing a detained member of a house church—an unregistered Christian congregation—has been denied access to case files; other lawyers have (read more…)
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(Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders—June 25, 2026) The Chinese government’s new “ethnic unity” legislation, which comes into effect on July 1, permits violations of human rights, particularly ethnic minorities’ rights to culture and way of life. The new legislation, which was adopted by the National People’s Congress in March (read more…)
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(Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders—June 2, 2026) Ahead of the 37th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre, CHRD pays tribute to the victims and survivors of the Chinese government’s violent military assault against unarmed protesters in 1989. Chinese authorities have never investigated or prosecuted perpetrators, and that impunity emboldens the (read more…)
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(Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders—May 21, 2026) The Chinese government, schools, and companies are failing to protect some children under 18 from hazardous work conditions and children under 16 from illegal employment, the Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) said today in a new report. Despite domestic legislation (read more…)
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（人权捍卫者网络，2026年5月21日）非政府组织”人权捍卫者网络”（CHRD）今天发布的报告指出，中国政府部门、职业学校、以及有关企业未切实保护18岁以下未成年人，造成他们在强制实习期间因危险劳工条件受到身心伤害，也没有依法防止有关企业非法雇用16岁以下儿童。尽管中国已制定相关国内法律，并批准加入了多项国际公约，童工问题仍在全国各地许多行业中持续存在。
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Dear Members of the European Parliament, Ahead of your forthcoming visit to China, we urge you to put human rights at the centre of your engagement with your Chinese counterparts.
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(Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders—May 19, 2026) Closing statements concluded today at Hong Kong’s High Court in the trial against the organizers of the territory’s long-running vigil for the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. One of the judges indicated the verdict may be handed down in mid-to-end (read more…)
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“No Deals without Freedom: Freeing Political Prisoners in China”
May 11, 2026 Comments Off on “No Deals without Freedom: Freeing Political Prisoners in China”On behalf of the more than four thousand political prisoners wrongfully held by the Chinese government since 2019—1,451 of them still arbitrarily detained today, and all documented by CHRD—I thank you for the opportunity to join this gathering.
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