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Chinese filmmaker sentenced to prison for COVID-19 documentary

Chinese activist filmmaker Chen Pinlin has been sentenced to 3½ years in prison in Shanghai for producing a documentary about China's nationwide protests against COVID-19 lockdowns in late 2022....

Hong Kong: Free expression under attack 40 years after the Sino-British Joint Declaration

Today, 19 December, marks 40 years since the signing of the Sino-British Joint Declaration in 1984, which laid out the conditions for the July 1997 British...

China’s vast intelligence network

Cyber capabilities and old-fashioned human intelligence operate in 'fundamentally different way from those in the West – in nature, scope and scale'

China Sentences Journalist Dong Yuyu To Seven Years For Espionage

Chinese journalist Dong Yuyu has been sentenced to seven years in prison after being convicted of espionage by a Beijing court, raising serious concerns...

Taiwanese civil rights groups protest for Hong Kong 47

More than 10 civil rights activist groups held a press conference in front of the Legislature on Monday in support of Hong Kong’s 47...

China’s crackdown on Hong Kong is a test for Trump

In Peru last weekend, Chinese President Xi Jinping reportedly told President Joe Biden that U.S. human rights advocacy was now a “red line” Beijing considers off...

Starmer criticised for meeting China’s Xi as Hong Kong freedom protesters were being jailed

Ex-leader of Hong Kong’s Democratic Party warns UK-China agreement before 1997 handover ‘evaporating’

China punishing officials for reading books that may affect their party-loyalty, academics also targeted

More and more officials are being punished for illicit reading as the Communist Party of China (CPC) tightens its grip on the personal lives...

Shanghai police round up Halloween party-goers, make some remove costumes

Revellers were reportedly required to register their names, IDs and phone numbers before being released

China tops the list for worst internet freedom in the world: US’ Freedom House report

In a world increasingly reliant on digital communication, internet freedom has become an essential aspect of human rights and democracy. The latest report from Freedom...

Western nations urge transparency on rights in Xinjiang, Tibet

A group of Western nations called on China Tuesday to release all arbitrarily detained Uyghur Muslims and Tibetans and to allow independent human rights...

Myanmar and China have world’s ‘worst environment’ for internet freedom

Freedom on the Net report says Kyrgyzstan showed sharpest downgrade, while Iceland had ‘freest online environment’.

Free ‘Bridge Man’ Protester

Chinese authorities should immediately release the man who unfurled banners critical of Chinese President Xi Jinping and the draconian “Zero-Covid” policy on Beijing’s Sitong Bridge two years ago, Human...

China cracks down on Communist party officials for reading banned books

Hillary Clinton and Hannah Arendt thought to be among authors of books procured by officials, as Xi Jinping tightens grip on Communist party