Chinese human rights website Weiquanwang has reported that lawyer-turned-citizen journalist Zhang Zhan has been detained again and is being held by authorities in Shanghai, just months after her release upon completing a...
To mark the tenth anniversary on Monday of his sentencing to life in prison, Marie Holzman writes at the online human-rights journal Diyin on Ilham Tohti’s case and its enduring significance. The essay, which is also...
September 23 marks the tenth anniversary of prominent Uyghur economist Ilham Tohti being sentenced to life in prison on unsubstantiated charges of “separatism” for his work advocating for better treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang...
German auto manufacturer Volkswagen (VW) has courted controversy for maintaining a business presence in Xinjiang, despite documentation from the U.N. and other organizations of the CCP’s possible crimes against humanity,...
The Guangdong Provincial High Court denied the appeals of imprisoned human rights defenders Wang Jianbing and Huang Xueqin in a secretive trial held last week, without notifying their attorneys. The decision was decried as a...
Uyghur villages have been Sinicized in Xinjiang. Local communities have been displaced for state-sponsored infrastructure projects in Tibet. News editors have been convicted of sedition in Hong Kong. National elections have been...
A recent WeChat post reveals some of the tools that Chinese schools and universities are using special software to identify and punish students who “scale the wall”—that is, circumvent China’s Great Firewall (GFW) to access...
In a rare event on Monday, the Chinese government has freed an American citizen who it had detained for nearly 20 years. The citizen, David Lin, was a pastor who was born in China and then lived in California, where he has now...
The work environment for journalists in Hong Kong continues to deteriorate. Last month, Stand News editors were convicted of sedition. This week, the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) revealed a widespread harassment...
The Chinese government’s recent detentions of two outspoken critics—visual artist Gao Zhen and citizen journalist Zhang Zhan—highlight the continuing suppression of free speech and the shrinking space for artistic expression and...
The Chinese public has been transfixed and outraged by news of a decade-long scheme involving the theft and illegal sale of thousands of corpses for use as bone-graft raw material in dental procedures. A document leaked last...
In the two weeks since the Ministry of Public Security and the Cyberspace Administration of China published a draft law proposing an ostensibly voluntary national Internet ID program and opened it up for public comment, there...
The suspicious death of a Beijing tech company manager in Inner Mongolia and recent reporting about the many other deaths of people held in RSDL (“residential surveillance at a designated location”) pending trial has revived...
On Sunday, Renmin University Ph.D. candidate Wang Di publicly accused her doctoral supervisor Wang Guiyuan (no relation) of sexual harassment and assault in a video that went viral on Chinese social media. Her supervisor was...
Activists have long attempted to use legal systems to seek accountability for Uyghur forced labor and other potential crimes against humanity in Xinjiang. At the international level, China has effectively used its leverage to...
Tuesday is the ninth anniversary of the 2015 “709” or “Black Friday” crackdown on Chinese rights lawyers. The following account of the episode, its legacy, and the censorship that surrounded it is the...
Last week, Chinese feminist activists in nine cities around the world held rallies and displayed banners demanding the release of journalist and feminist activist Huang Xueqin and labor-rights activist Wang Jianbing, who were...
Chinese authorities are continuing their efforts to Sinicize religious and ethnic minorities. Religious practices during Ramadan were stifled and censored this year, and many mosques across China have been stripped of their...
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