The wife of Chinese human rights lawyer Chang Weiping accepted the 2021 Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. on 23 March. Lawyer Chang was a 2021 laureate of the prize, but has not been able to accept due to his continued detention.
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The US-based Christian organization China Aid has reported that Uyghur house church pastor Alimujiang Yimiti was released from prison upon completion of a 15-year sentence in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
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Xi’an Church of Abundance (‘Fengsheng’) released a statement on 22 February with details of the torture and mistreatment that three detained leaders of the church were subjected to in custody. Senior Pastor Lian Changnian, 69, his son, Pastor Lian Xuliang, 41, and preacher Fu Juan, 38, had been held under ‘Residential Surveillance in a Designated
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A Chinese human rights lawyer was expelled from a law court in Huixian, Henan Province, while defending a Falun Gong practitioner on 17 February. He was then reported to local police who interrogated him at a police station.
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Fugong police in China’s Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, took four Christians into custody on 12 January for participating in a Bible study in August 2022.
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Xi’an Church of Abundance has expressed concerns for the wellbeing of its three leaders, who have been held in secret detention over fraud allegations since August 2022.
Concerns for wellbeing of three Christian leaders detained on fraud charges since August Read More »
An elder of Early Rain Church in Chengdu, China, was released from prison after completing a four-year prison sentence on 9 December.
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CSW and a coalition of 48 human rights NGOs urge the Chinese government to respect human rights, especially in the context of the current protests against the regime’s zero-Covid policy.
CSW has joined Uyghurs and Chinese and international human rights organisations in expressing deep disappointment at a UN Human Rights Council (HRC) vote on 6 October which blocked a procedural draft decision that would have enabled a debate on the human rights situation in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) during the HRC session in March 2023.
Less than a month ago, the OHCHR published a long overdue report on the situation of human rights in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) which found that the widespread arbitrary detention of Uyghurs, Kazakhs and members of other predominantly Muslim ethnic groups in the region may amount to crimes against humanity. We welcome and fully concur with these findings. However, the publication of this report will be of little support to the Uyghur community if it is not met with swift and concrete action.
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