China Ratifies ILO Treaties Ahead of UN Visit to Xinjiang
On Wednesday, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) voted to ratify two conventions on forced labor. The conventions were established by the International Labor Organization (ILO), which in February...
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Minitrue: Silence the “Voices of April” Viral Video on Shanghai Lockdowns [Includes Full English Subtitles and Transcript]
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. BJWX notice Latest instructions: All platforms, please refer to [attached] examples and perform...
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Hong Kong Opens Youth “Deradicalization” Programs and Closes Student Unions
Hong Kong’s Security Bureau has recently revealed, and praised, the government’s use of “deradicalization” programs for jailed protesters who participated in the 2019 pro-democracy movement. The bureau’s secretary outlined the...
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Netizen Voices: “Faced With This Kind of System, How Should a Sane Person Speak?”
On April 19, a nine-and-a-half minute audio recording of a phone call between a German resident in Shanghai and a translator working for the local neighborhood committee went viral on Chinese and overseas social media. The...
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Translation: Frank Lyrics about Shanghai Lockdown in “New Slave”
A YouTube video performance of “New Slave” 《新奴隶》, a song by Shanghai-based rapper Astro, has drawn attention for its frank lyrics about the chaos during Shanghai’s recent lockdown. After being widely circulated on...
Read MoreNew Zealand and Saudi Arabia Prepare Extraditions to China
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court of New Zealand ruled in a 3-2 decision to allow the extradition of a murder suspect to China at the request of Chinese authorities. The ruling sets what critics have described as a dangerous...
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In Shanghai, Doctors Battle Officialdom and Exhaustion
As state media rings with Xi Jinping’s pronouncement that “persistence is victory” in Shanghai’s fight against Omicron—now sometimes referred to as “The Battle to Protect Shanghai”—a different martial metaphor reigns on social...
Read MoreNew Report Documents Human Rights Abuses in China’s Global Fishing Practices
The Environmental Justice Foundation, an environmental NGO based in London, released a new report, titled “The Ever-Widening Net: Mapping the Scale, Nature and Corporate Structures of Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing...
Read MoreTranslation: China’s Stranded Truckers Feel Like “Highway Refugees” or “Animals in Captivity”
The latest wave of Omicron outbreaks and lockdowns in Shanghai, Changchun, Dongxing, Taiyuan, and other cities has resulted in food shortages and supply chain disruptions. The lockdowns and road closures have been particularly...
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