Chinese police have dramatically increased their use of house arrest during Xi Jinping’s ten years in power according to the new report “Home as Prison: The Increasing use of House Arrest in China” by Safeguard Defenders....
While many look forward to relaxing during the December holiday season, the CCP typically leverages foreign distraction during this period to crack down on Chinese human rights defenders. Among those targeted in a recent wave of...
In 2020, CDT Chinese editors launched the CDT Censorship Digest series. The series will collect and quote from news and online speech that was censored by Chinese authorities during the previous month, as well as summarize...
In 2020, CDT Chinese editors launched the CDT Censorship Digest series. The series will collect and quote from news and online speech that was censored by Chinese authorities during the previous month, as well as summarize...
PEN America reported on Monday that rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong has been formally arrested for inciting subversion, four months after he was found and detained after going into hiding amid a round-up of activists on December 26....
Rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang was reunited with his family in Beijing on Monday, almost five years after his detention following the 2015 “Black Friday” or “709” crackdown, and more than two weeks after...
Rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang was released from prison in Shandong on Sunday, but is still being kept under closely guarded isolation. Authorities have presented this as a standard measure against the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic,...
On Tuesday, International Human Rights Day, spokesperson Hua Chunying mounted a familiar defense of China’s rights record at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ regular press conference: Q: It’s the Human Rights...
The wife of jailed human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang visited her husband for the second time at...
This week marks the four year anniversary of the 709 “Black Friday” crackdown on human...
Li Wenzu, the wife of jailed human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang, has described her husband as a...
A court in Tianjin announced on Monday that prominent human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang has been...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang was put on trial in Tianjin on subversion charges Wednesday, after...
Liu Xia’s departure from China to Berlin three weeks ago appeared sudden after almost a year...
Monday was the third anniversary of the beginning of the "709" or "Black Friday...
CDT is expanding its wiki beyond the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon to include short...
“Quintessential rights lawyer” Wang Quanzhang was one of hundreds taken in the...
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