For the Chinese government, the disaster hit at a particularly sensitive time: three months before the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The international event was cause for unprecedented national pride, as it was the first time China had ever been awarded...
Chang was redetained in October 2020 after he spoke out about being tortured following an earlier detention in connection with a dinner gathering of human rights lawyers, dissidents, and rights activists in the southeastern port city of Xiamen in December...
Once workers from Xinjiang are marked for such job transfer, they are “examined politically” before being sent to other regions. All workers are placed under “half-military management,” while supervisors are paid salaries by the Personnel Bureau of the Xinjiang government.
The statement expressed concerns over the forced labor and discrimination against ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and that H&M would consequently terminate its business contract with cotton suppliers and manufacturers from the Xinjiang region.
ChinaAid On April 7, at 12:40 pm, Bo Fu, PhD, president of ChinaAid, welcomed Shi Minglei (2nd from right) and her 5-year-old daughter—Doudou (3rd from right) at Midland International Air and Space Port Airport, Texas. Ms. Shi, wife of Cheng Yuan, one of...
On Aug. 13, 2017, Gao disappeared from his brother’s house in Jia county, Yulin city, in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province. The Yulin policy bureau confirmed that the communist party had detained Gao but refused to say where he was being...
The watch would have been given as a reward to Chinese soldiers who massacred unknown numbers of pro-democracy citizens on June 4, 1989 (known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre).
Zhao died at his courtyard home after 16 years under house arrest following his ouster in the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) that ended the student-led pro-democracy movement that had occupied Tiananmen Square...
Antony Blinken, United States Secretary of State, said during a press conference on March 30, “The United States is committed to working with its allies and partners to hold the perpetrators of these abhorrent acts accountable.”
