(Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders—July 22, 2025) CHRD and 16 partners wrote to European Union (EU) leaders ahead of the EU-China Summit to call for human rights to be prioritized at the bilateral discussions. The group called for the EU to announce new strategies at the summit, to be (read more…)
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Ahead of the upcoming EU-China Summit in China on July 24–25, 17 organizations wrote to President Costa and President von der Leyen, urging them to prioritize human rights and use the Summit as an opportunity to ensure justice for victims and survivors of Beijing’s violations. We call on the EU (read more…)
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(Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders—July 8, 2025) Sources yesterday reported that Peng Lifa, who has been forcibly disappeared for more than two years, has now been handed a sentence of nine years on charges including “arson” and “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.” Peng was detained on October 13, 2022, (read more…)
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（2025年7月7日）－中国政府大举镇压人权律师十年后，关切此事的各国政府和联合国应当针对中国政府压迫公民社会展开独立的国际调查。中国当局严重侵犯律师与人权捍卫者的权利，但至今未被追究责任，导致中国政府更加明目张胆实施日益普遍且有系统的人权侵犯。据联合国指出，其中在维吾尔地区实施的迫害行为可能构成危害人类罪。
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(July 7, 2025) Ten years after the Chinese government’s widespread crackdown on human rights lawyers, concerned governments and the United Nations should establish an independent, international investigation into Beijing’s persecution of civil society. No Chinese authorities have been held accountable for grave rights abuses against lawyers and human rights defenders, (read more…)
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(25 June 2025) New Chinese government Internet identification requirements will further constrict online anonymity, Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) and ARTICLE 19 said today. The new mechanism, developed by the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) and Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), goes into full effect on July 15.
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（CHRD – 2025年6月2日）在1989年6月4日天安門大屠殺三十六週年前夕，中國人權捍衛者網絡（CHRD）向遇難者和倖存者致以敬意，並呼籲中國政府立即釋放因參與或紀念六四而被任意羈押的良心犯。
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（CHRD – 2025年6月2日）在1989年6月4日天安门大屠杀三十六周年前夕，中国人权捍卫者网络（CHRD）向遇难者和幸存者致以敬意，并呼吁中国政府立即释放因参与或纪念六四而被任意羁押的良心犯。
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(Chinese Human Rights Defenders—June 1, 2025) Ahead of the 36th anniversary of the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Massacre, the Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) pays tribute to the victims and survivors and calls on the Chinese government to release those jailed for participating in or commemorating the events (read more…)
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We, the undersigned press freedom and human rights organisations, strongly condemn the Chinese government’s ongoing arbitrary detention of journalist, human rights defender and former lawyer Zhang Zhan, on the 5th anniversary of her arrest.
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We, the undersigned civil society and human rights organizations, strongly condemn the Hong Kong government’s escalating repression of activists in exile and their family members in Hong Kong.
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“The Status of Democracy and Human Rights in Hong Kong, Five Years After the PRC’s Judicial Takeover”
July 24, 2025 Comments Off on “The Status of Democracy and Human Rights in Hong Kong, Five Years After the PRC’s Judicial Takeover”Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) has documented deepening repression under Chinese President Xi Jinping since he assumed power in late 2012, including significantly curtailing the human rights of seven million Hong Kong people. Although Beijing’s tactics there include an attempt to gut Hong Kong’s legal protections for human rights, it (read more…)
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