About China Voices Welcome to China Voices, a CSW quarterly update on freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) in China. All cases cited have either been published publicly or reported through CSW sources. For feedback or further information, please contact: . Overview The seventeenth session of the 14th National People’s Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) was […]
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About China Voices Welcome to China Voices, a CSW quarterly update on freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) in China. All cases cited have either been published publicly or reported through CSW sources. For feedback or for further information, please contact . Overview 4 June 2025 marked the 36th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre,
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About China Voices Welcome to China Voices, a CSW quarterly update on freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) in China. All cases cited have either been published publicly or reported through CSW sources. For feedback or for further information, please contact: . Overview China 14th National People’s Congress (NPC) concluded on 11 March. The report
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Welcome to our latest edition of China Voices. This quarter saw the publication of General Briefing: China, which provides an overview of changes in China’s legal framework, highlights key issues and recent trends relating to FoRB, and provides recommendations to the UK Government to advocate on key FoRB issues. Other topics covered in this
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Welcome to our latest edition of China Voices, a quarterly update on freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) in China. From October to December 2023, CSW recorded 71 incidents of violations affecting religious or belief groups across China. With the new Patriotic Education Law, China’s ongoing Sinicization campaign seems to have reached a new height.
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Welcome to our latest edition of China Voices, a quarterly update on freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) in China. From July to September 2023, CSW recorded 83 incidents of violations affecting religious or belief groups throughout China. Highlights include world famous mosques ‘Sinicized’, yet another new religious regulation now in force, a credit scheme
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Welcome to our latest edition of China Voices, a quarterly update on freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) in China. From April to June 2023, CSW recorded 101 incidents of violations affecting religious or belief groups throughout China. Cases included in this update highlight how religious leaders who refuse to ‘follow the Party’ have been
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Welcome to our latest edition of China Voices, a quarterly update on freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) in China. So far in 2023, CSW has recorded 82 concerning incidents for various religious or belief groups across China. These have been both offline and online, with several rights activists being forcibly displaced in the name
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Welcome to our latest edition of China Voices, a quarterly update on freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) in China. The last quarter of 2022 may be remembered as one of the most eventful in China since 1989. A party Congress heralded strongman Xi Jinping’s leadership for the foreseeable future. A protester hung banners from
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In the run-up to its 20th party congress, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) further stepped up its efforts to both maintain political stability and contain Covid-19 in the country. Many people suffered shortages of food and medicine in areas that had been locked down for extended periods, including in Xinjiang and Tibet. Tragically, this was
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