中国：任意羁押可能构成危害人类罪
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（人权捍卫者 – 2025年3月5日）非政府组织「人权捍卫者」（CHRD）今天发布的报告指出，在过去六年中，一共有1,545位因和平表达意见或行使人权遭中国当局羁押的良心犯被判刑入狱。
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“In a Prison Cell Waiting for Daybreak”：Arbitrary Detention in China may Constitute Crimes Against Humanity
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(Chinese Human Rights Defenders, March 5, 2025) Between 2019 and 2024, Chinese authorities arbitrarily detained thousands and convicted 1,545 prisoners of conscience for peacefully exercising or advocating for human rights. They were sentenced and imprisoned on charges that stem from laws that are not in conformity with the Chinese government’s (read more…)
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“如果我拒绝服从，我的家人就会被折磨！” 人权捍卫者家属遭受株连惩罚
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中国当局使用“株连”或“连坐”来惩罚包括儿童在内的人权捍卫者的家庭。这类惩罚没有任何法律依据，但对中国及海外侨民社区的人们带来了严重的后果。
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“If I Disobey, My Family Will Suffer:” Collective punishment of human rights defenders’ families in China
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(Chinese Human Rights Defenders, April 15, 2024) CHRD releases its annual report on the situation of human rights defenders (2023), “If I Disobey, My Family Will Suffer: Collective punishment of human rights defenders’ families in China.”
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Briefing Paper: Strategies for Making China’s 4th UPR Effective in Stopping Atrocity Crimes
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As United Nations Member States prepare for China’s January 2024 UPR, they should firmly and clearly focus on the goal of making positive changes inside the country at a time when rights are under severe attack.
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“We strip you naked to crush your spirit!” –Gender-based State Violence & Reprisals against Women Human Rights Defenders in China
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(Chinese Human Rights Defenders— July 31, 2023) Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party has claimed to champion women’s equality. Chairman Mao Zedong famously proclaimed that “women hold up half the sky,” and the first PRC Constitution––adopted in 1954–– provided that “Women in (read more…)
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WILL THE HUI BE SILENTLY ERASED?——A groundbreaking report on the Chinese government’s campaign to eliminate Hui Muslim identity and the crisis of survival for the Hui and Islam in China
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(Chinese Human Rights Defenders— March 22, 2023) The Hui are the second largest minority group in China, with a population of 11.4 million.1 Although this is greater than the population of Portugal, the Hui are an unfamiliar group to most outside of China. Yet over centuries, they have persisted in maintaining distinct (read more…)
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“Persisting in Resisting” ——Annual Report on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders in China (2022)
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(Chinese Human Rights Defenders— March 15, 2023) This year marks the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the U.N. Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, which recognizes the key role of human rights defenders (HRDs) in the realization of human rights and provides that each State has a responsibility and duty “to (read more…)
Read moreStructural Problems Underpinning Systemic Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in China
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This report addresses the questions how the Chinese government has been doing in protecting economic, social, and cultural rights in the past few years. The report examines the structural defects that underpin the problems in protection of these rights. And the report sheds light on the systematic failures that many (read more…)
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CHRD releases “Defending Human Rights in the Time of COVID-19”: Annual Report on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders in China (2020)
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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…)
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“A Healthy Society Should Not Have Just One Voice” – China Must End Crackdown on Online Speech in Response to COVID-19
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(Chinese Human Rights Defenders—April 1, 2020) The Chinese government must release detained citizen journalists and outspoken critics, and end the new crackdown on free expression online since the start of COVID-19 outbreak. Under the guise of fighting the novel coronavirus, authorities in China have escalated suppression online by blocking independent (read more…)
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