Sophie Beach
Sophie Beach is CDT's Operations and Communications Manager. From 2003-2021, she served as Executive Editor of CDT English. She lives in Berkeley, California.
U.S. Commission Calls Xinjiang Detentions “Crime Against Humanity”
Posted by Sophie Beach | Jan 9, 2020
In their annual report assessing human rights conditions in China in 2019, the Congressional-Executive Commission on China called the detention of Uyghurs in Xinjiang a “crime against humanity,” while also presenting...
Read MorePhoto: The long walk to filial piety, by Dickson Phua
Posted by Sophie Beach | Jan 2, 2020
Gene-editing Scientist He Jiankui Sentenced to Three Years
Posted by Sophie Beach | Dec 30, 2019
Last November, He Jiankui, a researcher at Shenzhen’s Southern University of Science and Technology, announced that he had successfully used the CRISPR-CaS9 genome-editing tool to alter the embryos of twin girls to make them...
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