In the face of growing government repression, many residents of Hong Kong, Xinjiang, and various provinces of China have fled abroad to seek refuge. This fateful decision to uproot one’s life splits identity between a native...
Last week, the bodies of eight Chinese nationals were discovered off the coast of Oaxaca, Mexico, after their boat capsized along a route often used by migrants attempting to reach the U.S. This is the latest example of an...
An investigation by the BBC has uncovered evidence of systemic rape in Xinjiang internment camps, where approximately one million Uyghurs are believed to be or have been imprisoned. In January, on the last day of the Trump...
A court in Shenzhen has handed prison sentences to ten Hong Kongers who were caught attempting to flee Hong Kong for Taiwan by boat in August 2020. Two others, who are underaged, were repatriated to Hong Kong on Wednesday, where...
Four activists were reportedly turned away from the U.S. Consulate in Hong Kong following a bid to seek asylum there on Tuesday, in a dramatic incident that followed several national security arrests and the interception of...
Fugitive Chinese property tycoon and whistleblower Guo Wengui has applied for asylum in the United...
The New York Times’ Michael Forsythe and Mark Mazzetti report on Beijing’s demands...
A Chinese woman whose application for asylum in the U.S. was rejected due to her complicity in...
Police suspect that around 200 people rescued from a human trafficking camp in southern Thailand...
Kirk Semple, Joseph Goldstein, and Jeffrey E. Singer report on an official crackdown on fraudulent...
Speculation has mounted this week that NSA leaker Edward Snowden might leave Hong Kong for Iceland, removing a small but buzzing fly from the ointment of Sino-U.S. relations and possibly defusing accusations of spying for China....
Blind activist Chen Guangcheng told a U.S. congressional subcommittee on Tuesday that China had violated the deal that enabled him to leave the country last year, saying that Beijing had continued to persecute his family despite...
The Telegraph’s Peter Foster talks to legal activist Chen Guangcheng, who escaped to the U.S. from illegal house arrest almost a year ago, about his pessimistic outlook on reform under Xi Jinping and his efforts to obtain...
A forthcoming book by Chinese journalists Pin Ho and Wenguang Huang claims that Wang Lijun unsuccessfully sought asylum from the U.K. months before entering the U.S. consulate in Chengdu last year, adding yet more ingredients to...
Abu Bakker Qassim, an ethnic Uyghur, spent four-and-a-half years as a detainee at Guantanamo Bay. A BBC report from last summer tells the story of Qassim’s flee from China, and how he ended up in U.S. custody: It is an...
Hu Jia, an activist who was detained for over 24 hours after meeting with the escaped Chen Guangcheng last week, has said that police admitted during his questioning that Chen and his supporters had done nothing wrong in the...
The AP has interviewed Uighur refugees who fled China after riots last year and are now seeking asylum in other countries: Nearly a year after the worst riots in China’s far west in more than a decade, his story and that...
The group of 22 Uighurs who escaped to Cambodia will be deported. News of their deportation follows reports that China disputed the United Nations’ refugee system. From the Associated Press: A group of Muslims who fled...
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