Alerts & Statements | Chinese Human Rights Defenders

China: End Persecution of Free Speech with Frivolous Crimes

July 21, 2021 Comments Off

An overview of the legal proceedings of three cases of human rights defenders in pre-trial detention demonstrates how the Chinese government counters dissent using the ever-stretchable criminal charge of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.

The Chinese government must end its reprisals against agricultural entrepreneur and philanthropist Sun Dawu and his associates

July 14, 2021 Comments Off

CHRD condemns the prosecution of Sun Dawu, a prominent agricultural entrepreneur and philanthropist, as a blatant attempt to punish Sun for his support of human rights defenders.

Joint Statement: The International Community Must Halt Rapid Decline of Rights in Hong Kong

June 30, 2021 Comments Off

On this July 1st, which marks the 24th anniversary of the Hong Kong handover, the one-year anniversary of the enactment of the HK National Security Law, and the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, we urge the international community to take effective actions to halt the (read more…)

6.26联合国国际支持酷刑受害者日: 联署声明

June 25, 2021 Comments Off

今年是《禁止酷刑公约》的34周年纪念，我们以下联署团体及个人谨此呼吁国际社会团结一致并坚定不懈地监督中国的酷刑问题，这对推动中国政府正视其人权违反状况，至为关键

A Joint Statement on The UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

June 25, 2021 Comments Off

On this occasion of the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, we the undersigned issue this statement to call on the international community to stand united and resolute in tracking the issue of torture in China.

For the China Story to be Credible, the Chinese Government Must Confront its Abuses

June 15, 2021 Comments Off

If Xi Jinping wants China to plausibly present itself to the world as a “credible, lovable, and respectable” country, he must end human rights violations.

China: Immediately release activist Xing Wangli and end reprisals against rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong

May 24, 2021 Comments Off

CHRD calls on the Chinese government to immediately release activist Xing Wangli (邢望力) and end reprisals against rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong (江天勇). Xing Wangli has apparently been criminally detained because he visited lawyer Jiang Tianyong.

Chinese authorities must investigate torture claims by detained web designer

May 13, 2021 Comments Off

The Chinese government, a party to the Convention against Torture, must immediately launch a prompt and impartial investigation of police officers accused of committing torture against a website administrator, Niu Tengyu.

Chinese authorities must immediately end their prosecution of citizen journalists

May 11, 2021 Comments Off

CHRD denounces Chinese authorities for putting on trial two citizen journalists, Chen Mei and Cai Wei, on a charge of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” at Beijing’s Chaoyang District Court on May 11.

China: Immediately Free Poet Wang Zang and His Wife Wang Li

May 10, 2021 Comments Off

The Chinese government must end its egregious persecution of prominent poet Wang Zang (王藏) and its petty retaliation against his wife, Wang Li (王丽).

The Chinese government must cooperate with investigation into the suspicious death of activist Guo Hongwei

April 20, 2021 Comments Off

Chinese authorities must cooperate with an investigation into the death of human rights defender Guo Hongwei (郭洪伟) and prevent the destruction of any evidence related to his death in custody.

CHRD releases “Defending Human Rights in the Time of COVID-19”: Annual Report on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders in China (2020)

March 29, 2021 Comments Off

During the year 2020, while the world was battling the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese authorities used the exceptional period to further tighten its grip over mainland society while abandoning its pledge to respect a high-degree of autonomy in Hong Kong, says CHRD in its 2020 annual report on the (read more…)