Human Rights Dispatch Jan 15, 2026 Remembering Ilham Tohti, HRF op-ed on Venezuela HRF President @ThorHalvorssen weighed in for the @WSJ on the future of Venezuela following the arrest of Nicolás Maduro.
Human Rights Dispatch Jan 12, 2026 Nicaragua Escalates Political Repression, Remembering Peng Shuai. HRF condemns the Ortega-Murillo regime’s latest escalation of political repression in Nicaragua, as authorities detain citizens for commenting on, reacting to, or expressing symbolic support for the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.
Blog Post Dec 22, 2025 The Lasting Impacts of Transnational Repression Transnational repression is a growing threat to global human rights. In 2025, authoritarian regimes continued to surveil and silence dissidents abroad, relying on physical, legal, and digital tactics to reach beyond their borders and clamp down on the fundamental freedoms of these courageous individuals.
Blog Post Dec 22, 2025 Weaponizing the International System Authoritarian regimes have more tools than ever at their disposal to target dissidents and activists abroad.
Human Rights Dispatch Dec 17, 2025 Cuba Expels Mexican Priest, Investigating Nicaraguan Journalists Dissapearance, Tibetans Arrested for Protest and more. HRF and @RSF_en urge the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances to call on the Nicaraguan regime to conduct a thorough and independent investigation into Fabiola Tercero Castro’s disappearance and ensure an immediate end to the ongoing efforts to control, intimidate, and surveil her.
Human Rights Dispatch Dec 12, 2025 Hong Kong Election Arrests, Hong Kong Weaponizes AI, Burma Sham Elections, and more. HRF condemns the arrest of 11 Hong Kongers — three now prosecuted — for allegedly encouraging election boycotts.
Human Rights Dispatch Dec 11, 2025 DRC–Rwanda Deal, Torture of Venezuelan activists, China continues censorship. Last Thursday, Democratic Republic of Congo’s Félix Tshisekedi and Rwanda’s Paul Kagame met in Washington to ratify a U.S.-brokered deal meant to end decades of conflict in eastern Congo.
Human Rights Dispatch Dec 8, 2025 Research on Chinese-backed AI labs, Cambodia detains five activists HRF expresses grave concern over the partnerships between leading Western universities and research institutions and China’s state-backed AI labs tied to surveillance, repression, and human rights violations, as revealed in a new joint report with @StrategyRisks .
Press Release Dec 8, 2025 HRF-Sponsored Research Reveals Western Funding Ties to China’s State-Backed AI Labs A report released today by Strategy Risks, in partnership with the Human Rights Foundation, reveals that leading Western universities — including MIT, Stanford, and Oxford — have collaborated extensively with Chinese AI laboratories embedded in the country’s surveillance apparatus, with U.S. and UK government funding repeatedly acknowledged in the research.
Human Rights Dispatch Nov 26, 2025 Detention of Rwandan opposition leader and Chinese Zion Church leaders HRF calls on the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) to investigate Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire’s case,
Human Rights Dispatch Nov 6, 2025 Thailand arrests Montagnard refugees, CCP supports Burmese junta, U.S. and South Korea halt North Korea broadcasts. HRF expresses deep concern over Thailand’s arrest of approximately 70 Vietnamese indigenous Montagnard refugees, including some under UNHCR protection.
Human Rights Dispatch Nov 5, 2025 Uyghur Forced-Labor Research Blocked HRF condemns Beijing’s pressure on UK-based Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) to halt Professor @LauraTMurphy ‘s work on Uyghur forced labor and supply chains in China.
Human Rights Dispatch Oct 15, 2025 Hostage taking panel, detention of Chinese pastor. This briefing highlights key developments and shares HRF’s stance on urgent human rights struggles unfolding around the world.
Blog Post Aug 26, 2025 The Sculptor Xi Jinping Wants You to Forget For 68-year-old Gao Zhen, last Aug. 26 wasn’t just any other day — it was the day of his arrest.
Press Release Aug 26, 2025 Joint statement on the first anniversary of Gao Zhen’s detention, demanding his urgent release We, the undersigned organizations, express our grave concern at the ongoing detention of artist Gao Zhen (高兟), a 69-year-old US permanent resident and prominent figure in China’s contemporary art scene, who has now been imprisoned for a year without trial.
Publication Aug 15, 2025 An artist on the run, an exhibition censored: How China tried to silence a Thai art show Three weeks ago, Burmese artist Sai was in Bangkok, celebrating the opening of an art exhibition he had curated with his wife at one of Thailand’s top galleries.
Op-Ed Jul 14, 2025 Legitimizing repression: A retired New Zealand judge lends credibility to China’s crackdown The very last thing any person with integrity wants, or should want, is to be praised by the likes of Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee, the main man responsible for aiding and abetting the Chinese Communist Party in eroding democracy and freedom in Hong Kong.
Blog Post Apr 14, 2025 How China Uses Financial Repression to Erase the Uyghur People Rushan Abbas has spent years fighting for the freedom of her people, the Uyghurs, a Muslim ethnic group in the Uyghur Region, located in northwest China.
Blog Post Jan 8, 2025 Corruption Trails CBDC Projects in China, Nigeria, and Lebanon Central bankers have a corruption problem. Recently, Yao Qian, the former head of the People’s Bank of China’s research into central bank digital currency (CBDC), was removed from office and expelled from the Chinese Communist Party for engaging in corruption.
Blog Post Dec 8, 2020 Data Collection & Censorship in the Coronavirus Outbreak At the 2020 Oslo Freedom Forum, the Human Rights Foundation hosted a panel discussion about data collection and censorship as it relates to governmental responses to the coronavirus.
