Slide Show | Chinese Human Rights Defenders

China’s Draft Internet ID Measure Threatens to Tighten Online Censorship

February 5, 2025 Comments Off

Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) and ARTICLE 19 issued an analysis of the proposed Internet ID Measure in China. Although not yet adopted, if enacted, the measure will further restrict online freedom of expression and access to information, hinder the work of human rights defenders, breach international human rights standards, (read more…)

CHRD Joins other human rights groups endorsing a new policy memo: Prioritizing Human Rights in United States Policy toward China: A Guide for the Trump Administration

February 3, 2025 Comments Off

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) poses interrelated threats to the United States’ national security, economic interests, and human rights. But for decades, policymakers have elevated national security and economic interests over human rights. This has led to worse outcomes in all three areas, particularly for people across China. The Trump (read more…)

Sophie Richardson Joins Chinese Human Rights Defenders Network

January 2, 2025 Comments Off

(January 2, 2025) – Sophie Richardson, a veteran human rights advocate and a leading scholar of Chinese politics, human rights, and foreign policy, has been named the Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders’ Co-Executive Director, the organization said today. Dr. Richardson assumes the position on January 2, 2025.

Beijing Must End Punishment of “Blank Paper” Protesters

November 25, 2024 Comments Off

On the two-year anniversary of Chinese authorities’ crackdown on the peaceful “Blank Paper” demonstrations, Chinese Human Rights Defenders calls on Beijing to release all wrongfully detained protesters. We urge the international human rights community to press the Chinese government to fulfill its human rights obligations to protect freedom of peaceful (read more…)

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.

CHRD Requests Urgent Action and WGAD Review for Detained Lawyer Xie Yang

November 11, 2024 Comments Off

Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) sent communiqués to UN human rights special procedures, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Working group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearance, Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Special Rapporteur on (read more…)

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…)

Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) and The Rights Practice (TRP) Communiqué Alleging Arbitrary Detention of Two Human Rights Defenders JI Xiaolong and CHEN Pinlin for Exercising Right to Freedom of Expression about COVID-19 Pandemic, Requesting Urgent Action and WGAD Review

September 10, 2024 Comments Off

Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) and The Rights Practice (TRP) sent communiques to UN human rights special procedures, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Special Rapporteur (read more…)