Slide Show | Chinese Human Rights Defenders

The crackdown on trade unions in Hong Kong: what response from responsible investors?

April 19, 2022 Comments Off

As the Hong Kong government punishes trade unions and cracks down on civil society, the business community must reassess risk levels in Hong Kong.

China: End Censorship, Prioritize Human Rights over Politicized “Zero-COVID”

April 13, 2022 Comments Off

The Chinese government must protect the right to food and provide urgent care for the 26 million residents in Shanghai and many others in cities currently under COVID-19 lockdown. Authorities must immediately stop censoring affected residents’ expressions of outcries for help with basic necessities and concerns over government COVID-19 measures (read more…)

Huang Xueqin (黄雪琴)

March 31, 2022 Comments Off

“Being a journalist is not a crime.” Read the defender portrait of Huang Xueqin, an independent journalist and #MeToo movement leader authorities in Guangzhou have held since September 2021 for “inciting subversion of state authority.”

Re: European Union-China summit

March 18, 2022 Comments Off

We are writing to share our concerns and recommendations ahead of the forthcoming European Union (EU) – China summit.

Winners Named for the 2022 Cao Shunli Memorial Award for Human Rights Defenders

March 14, 2022 Comments Off

Human rights defenders He Fangmei and Chang Weiping are recipients of the eighth Cao Shunli Memorial Award for Human Rights Defenders. The decision to give this year’s award to both Ms. He Fangmei and Mr. Chang Weiping recognizes their long-standing civil society activism to promote protection of human rights in (read more…)

CHRD calls for immediate release of anti-war activist and end to war-related censorship

March 8, 2022 Comments Off

CHRD condemns the detention of a Chinese citizen who has attempted to engage in peaceful assembly to reflect his views on foreign policy issues, namely the military conflict in Ukraine.

CHRD launches “Zero Tolerance for Human Rights Defenders in the Year of “Zero COVID”

March 7, 2022 Comments Off

CHRD launches our annual human rights report – “Zero Tolerance for Human Rights Defenders in the Year of “Zero COVID” – that lays out the key human rights trends in 2021 and beyond.

Zero Tolerance for Human Rights Defenders in the Year of “Zero COVID”: Annual Report on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders in China (2021)

March 7, 2022 Comments Off

Throughout 2021, the Chinese state continued to tighten control over nearly all facets of society, often under the pretense of controlling the spread of COVID-19 and protecting national security. As in consecutive years past, government authorities took harsh reprisal measures against human rights defenders in China, Hong Kong, the Xinjiang (read more…)

Beijing Olympics Begin Amid Atrocity Crimes

January 28, 2022 Comments Off

The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will open amid atrocity crimes and other grave human rights violations by the Chinese government, 243 nongovernmental organizations from around the world said today. The groups urged governments to join a diplomatic boycott of the Games, slated to begin February 4, 2022, and for athletes and sponsors not (read more…)

#BeijingWinterOlympics: Your Quick Guide to China’s Human Rights Crisis

January 19, 2022 Comments Off

Ahead of the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics on February 4 in Beijing, CHRD created this list of the top human rights concerns in China for spectators, journalists, commercial sponsors, government delegations, and athletes. #1. Crimes against humanity in Xinjiang. Since 2017, Chinese authorities have committed systematic human (read more…)

On the Tragic Day of the Death of Zhang Qing, Wife of Guo Feixiong, CHRD Urges the Chinese Government to Free the Human Rights Intellectual, End Family Separations

January 10, 2022 Comments Off

After the death on January 10 of Zhang Qing, the wife of prominent Chinese dissident intellectual Guo Feixiong, CHRD calls for Chinese authorities to release Guo and to finally end the cruel and inhumane practice of using family separation to intimidate and punish dissidents and human rights defenders, as well (read more…)

Holiday repression signals dire year for human rights in China in 2022

January 6, 2022 Comments Off

In a series of calculated moves, taking advantage of a lull in international attention during the holiday period between Christmas and New Year, the Chinese authorities rushed through a number of acts in violation of human rights in the areas of freedom of expression, press freedom, and religious freedom. In (read more…)