CSW is calling for information regarding the status of Chinese writer and activist Pang Jian, who has been detained for over eight months on suspicion of ‘inciting secession.’ On 10 September, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported (in Chinese) that his case was about to be heard at Baoding City Intermediate Court, Hebei Province; however, it is […]
Reports have emerged indicating that human rights lawyer Chang Weiping has been subject to psychological torture, sleep deprivation, and other forms of cruel and inhuman treatment while in detention. Chang’s lawyer was finally able to meet with him on 14 September, the first such meeting since he was detained in October 2020. Previous requests for
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CSW is concerned by reports that an estimated 117 Tibetans remain in detention after a spate of arrests by Chinese authorities in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, a figure confirmed by the non-profit organisation Tibet Watch. According to Radio Free Asia (RFA), the crackdown by authorities focused on language rights and possession of banned images of
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CSW urgently calls for the release of sentenced Chinese Christian human rights defender Zhang Zhan, whose health condition is in a critical state amid a continuous hunger strike against her unjust detention and imprisonment. Ms Zhang was detained by Shanghai police for her reports from Wuhan on the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak in May 2020. During
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The leader of an unregistered Protestant church in China has been formally arrested on charges of ‘unlawfully possessing items that advocate terrorism or extremism,’ in possibly the first such case involving a church leader in the country. Mr Zhao Weikai is a leader of Xuncheng Reformed Church in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, in north China. His
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British MPs have increased calls on the UK government to pressure the Chinese government to end human rights violations in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. On 15 July the House of Commons will hold a debate on calling for a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics hosted by China, citing human rights concerns about
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Chinese authorities reportedly arrested religious believers and placed activists under house arrest in preparation for celebrations of the 100-year anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on 1 July. Activists, dissidents and former prisoners of conscience across the country were placed under house arrest or had their movement restricted in the run up to the
CSW welcomes a joint statement delivered by Canada on 22 June on the human rights situation in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) at the 47th session of the UN Human Rights Council. The joint statement, signed by 44 UN member states, expressed grave concern about the human rights situation in the XUAR, including “reports of torture or cruel, inhuman
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CSW joins calls by the family of Uyghur retired doctor Gulshan Abbas for her immediate release from prison in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. On 12 June, Dr Abbas’ birthday, her daughter Ziba Murat tweeted a video calling for her mother’s immediate release. On the same day, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken tweeted: “Today is
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Chinese Christian Gao Heng was criminally detained by the authorities hours after holding up a placard reading “June 4, Pray for the Nation” in a subway station in Guangzhou on 4 June 2021, the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. For decades, the Chinese authorities have completely supressed any act of remembrance of 4
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