(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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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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On May 10, CHRD joined a coalition of civil society groups, human rights organizations , and individual advocates in calling for the immediate and unconditional release of renowned artist Gao Zhen, who remains detained at the age of 70.
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(Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders—April 30, 2026) Chinese authorities should immediately release and provide adequate medical care to two arbitrarily detained Tibetan writers. They are reportedly in critical health and are being deprived of adequate medical treatment in prison. Two Falun Gong practitioners recently died in prison or shortly (read more…)
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(Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders—April 22, 2026) The Pingyang County Court in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, is scheduled to try Pastor Huang Yizi on April 24, 2026. Pastor Huang is charged with conducting “illegal business operations,” according to a court notice published by the Chinese-language website Rights Defense Network.
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