During the confinement period, many public facilities — including supermarkets, gyms, and all entertainment venues — were closed. On July 25, authorities also implemented heavy restrictions on residents’ movements and declared 314 high-risk areas and 37 medium-risk areas across the...
"All of these things are being done to save face for the country and to restore the public's good impression of their country," he said. "They'll do it for a while, and do it as they mean it, but really...
Despite the variety of measures taken to guide public opinion and control legal practitioners, including disappearance and torture, human rights lawyers continued their activities, and more lawyers joined their ranks to defend clients in human rights cases.
Mr. Tang has explained to the these agencies that his daughter is critically ill, that her care can no longer be delayed, and that continuing his detention will aggravate her condition and endanger her life. He said further that she...
The documentary is based on the stories of 18 Falun Gong practitioners who tapped into a state cable television broadcast network on March 5, 2002, in Changchun city, in China’s northeastern Jilin Province. Programs of “Self-immolation or Hoax?” and “Falun...
Despite the repeated arrests and attempts on his life, Xie never stopped advocating for oppressed voices in China. His work also included defending Falun Gong practitioners, land grab victims and survivors of HIV.
Prior to his detention, Ou had been a vocal supporter of the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, starting from the 2014 Occupy Central campaign for universal suffrage, which later broadened into the Umbrella Movement, and continuing with his support for...
“The various abuses of the Communist Party tramples on human rights and dignity. We must protest for the freedom of Guo Feixiong and boycott the Genocide Olympics.”
With no exams allowed in the Tibetan language for Tibetans applying for government jobs, young Tibetans have no choice but to study Chinese in their schools and ignore their own language, Wangchuk wrote on his Weibo account on Jan. 3.
