On May 18, 2023, blogger and activist Wu Gan was released from prison after serving an eight-year sentence for “subversion of state power.” Active in rights defense cases since 2009, Wu Gan (whose screen name was “Super Vulgar...
On Monday, French sports daily L’Équipe published an interview with Peng Shuai, her first appearance with an independent or international media organization since she accused former vice-premier Zhang Gaoli of sexual assault in...
More evidence is accumulating on torture in Xinjiang’s mass internment camps, referred to by the Chinese government as “Vocational Education and Training Centers.” New testimony from a former Chinese police detective and...
The Chinese government has made painstaking efforts to obscure and distort information about its crackdown on Xinjiang’s ethnic minorities. The propaganda campaign is double-edged—aimed at both Chinese citizens and the world at...
In a three-part documentary series focused on Taiwanese espionage, CCTV program Focus Talk broadcast the likely forced confessions of four Taiwanese citizens: Lee Meng-chu, Cheng Yu-chin, Tsai Chin-shu, and Shih Cheng-ping. All...
Much alarm has been expressed over China’s broadcasting of likely forced confessions aimed at chilling public activism and dissent in recent years. In 2018, Safeguard Defenders published an in-depth report on the methods,...
Simon Cheng, the 29-year-old Hong Kong resident formerly employed by the U.K. consulate who was detained in China for 15 days in August and accused in state-affiliated media of “soliciting prostitutes,” has now...
The U.K.’s media regulator Ofcom has launched an investigation into China Global Television...
In January, rights lawyer Yu Wensheng had his law license revoked and was then detained in...
In February, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post published an interview with detained...
The past five years have seen growing alarm at the use of televised confessions, particularly in...
Gui Minhai, one of the five booksellers and publishers associated with Hong Kong’s Mighty Current...
Taiwanese activist and NGO worker Lee Ming-che was tried for subversion on Monday, five and a half...
Activist and former rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong was tried for inciting subversion in Changsha on...
In recent years, Chinese authorities have made increasing use of televised or printed, and likely...
Rights lawyer Xie Yang stood trial in Changsha on Monday, nearly two years after his detention in...
On Monday, China Law Translate highlighted a public notice from county-level public security...
Late last year, rights lawyer Xie Yang gave a graphic and detailed account to his lawyer, Chen...
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