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Joint Letter Calling for Gao Zhen’s Release: Upholding Human Rights and Freedom of Expression

November 18, 2024 Comments Off

The undersigned organizations are gravely concerned by the arrest of Gao Zhen and call for his unconditional and immediate release. His detention is not just a violation of his rights but a blatant abuse of power and an attack on the fundamental human freedoms of all Chinese people who have (read more…)

China Must Urgently Release Human Rights Lawyer Yu Wensheng and Activist Xu Yan — A joint statement

November 13, 2024 Comments Off

We, the undersigned civil society organizations, are deeply concerned about this case and call for the immediate and unconditional release of Yu and Xu, as they have been sentenced solely for the exercise of their human rights including the right to freedom of expression.

Urgent Action: Provide Life-Saving Care to Prisoner of Conscience Xu Zhiyong during Hunger Strike

October 24, 2024 Comments Off

(Chinese Human Rights Defenders – October 24, 2024) CHRD is alarmed that imprisoned legal advocate Xu Zhiyong is in life-threatening condition after being on a hunger strike since October 4 to protest the ill-treatment and violations of his rights at Lunan Prison, Shandong Province. We call on the Chinese authorities (read more…)

Joint statement from civil society and human rights organisations on UK Foreign Secretary’s visit to China

October 16, 2024 Comments Off

We, the undersigned, representing civil society and human rights organisations across the UK, urge British Foreign Secretary David Lammy to use his official visit to Beijing and Shanghai to raise concerns about the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance (SNSO) in Hong Kong: in particular, its extraterritoriality clauses, which allows the law (read more…)

“The Sorrow of our Era:” Alarming Cycles of Abuses and Impunity in China ——The Persecution of Lawyer Xie Yang Repeats Patterns of Retaliation against Human Rights Defenders

October 9, 2024 Comments Off

More than a quarter of century after signing the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Chinese government has unrelentingly refused to ratify it, instead, aggressively violating the rights enshrined in the treaty. This can be illustrated in the government’s incessant persecution of human rights lawyer Xie Yang, which (read more…)

UN Report Exposes Reprisals against Human Rights Defenders in China

September 23, 2024 Comments Off

As the United Nations Human Rights Council meets on September 26 to hear the latest reprisals report from the UN Secretary General’s office, the Chinese government will be named a violator. For the tenth consecutive year, it has relentlessly persecuted human rights defenders for their interactions with UN human rights (read more…)

数百人被中国政府强迫失踪

August 29, 2024 Comments Off

中国当局使用强迫或非自愿失踪作为一种策略，从首都到偏远地区，在民众心中制造恐怖，威胁任何敢于在网上或街头挑战政府的人。根据联合国的记录，截至去年，中国共有168起未解决的强迫失踪案件。根据CHRD的记录，自2019年以来，至少有30名异议人士确认失踪。在强迫失踪受害者国际日（8月30日）之际，CHRD敦促中国政府停止使用强迫失踪，这在国际法下是严格禁止的。中国政府应该签署并批准《保护所有人免遭强迫失踪国际公约》。

Hundreds Forcibly Disappeared in China

August 29, 2024 Comments Off

Chinese Authorities are using enforced or involuntary disappearances as a strategy to strike terror in the hearts of the population, intimidating anyone who challenges the government online or in the streets, in the nation’s Capital or the hinterlands. The UN documented 168 outstanding cases of forced disappearances in China as (read more…)

非政府組織聯合聲明：寫於聯合國人權高專辦發佈關於維吾爾地區暴行的評估報告兩週年之際

August 29, 2024 Comments Off

我們是以下連署之人權團體，於貴機關發布《聯合國維吾爾人權報告》兩週年之際特此致信。這份報告具有里程碑意義。其中，基於中國官方檔案以及受害者與倖存者的訪談，此報告證實了酷刑、大規模無理拘禁等侵害的發生，造成無數家庭分離，並進一步推斷出，中國政府的行為「可能構成國際犯罪，尤其是危害人類罪」。

Joint NGOs Statement Marking the 2nd Anniversary of the Publication of UN OHCHR Assessment on Atrocity Crimes in the Uyghur Region

August 28, 2024 Comments Off

We, the undersigned human rights organizations, write to mark the second anniversary of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)’s publication of its Assessment of Human Rights Concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China. That landmark August 2022 report, based on Chinese government (read more…)

Joint statement to the 56th session of the UN Human Rights council

July 5, 2024 Comments Off

Mr. President, This is a joint statement, in solidarity with the victims of human rights violations committed by the Chinese government.

Beijing Must Stop Relentless Punishment of Human Rights Lawyers

July 5, 2024 Comments Off

(Chinese Human Rights Defenders – July 5, 2024) Nine years after the Chinese government launched its sustained assault on human rights lawyers, CHRD renews urgent calls on Beijing to cease its campaign to crush the human rights legal profession in China. We stand with the victims of the government’s rights (read more…)