Amnesty International today designated three prominent human rights defenders from Hong Kong and mainland China as prisoners of conscience.
Human rights lawyers Chow Hang-tung and...
A bipartisan group of legislators urges the country’s two neighbors to use U.S. law as a model to keep out imports that can be traced to China’s Xinjiang region
Prisoner of conscience Ilham Tohti handed life sentence 10 years ago
Governments urged to step up diplomatic efforts to secure his freedom
Tohti’s daughter says Chinese...
They say that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. In China, where local Communist officials are omnipotent and everything from moving house to having a second child requires a permit, corruption has reached unprecedented levels. Billions of dollars have been embezzled and getting anything done usually involves paying a bribe.
A spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, issued today a rare public statement on his Office’s work on China, marking two years since the release of its groundbreaking report on the grave human rights situation in the Uyghur region (Xinjiang).
China on Thursday rejected Western-led recommendations for human-rights reforms including calls for greater freedoms in Hong Kong and for Uyghurs in Xinjiang, but accepted...
On 4 July 2024, during the outcome of China’s fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the United Nations Human Rights Council, PEN International delivered...
At the adoption of the report of its fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR), China ignored calls to implement UN findings and dismissed all serious criticism of its human rights record, refusing to budge on the documented plight of Uyghurs, Tibetans, Hong Kongers, human rights activists, lawyers, and more. We urged China to genuinely engage with the UN to enact meaningful reforms.
