Press Release Jul 10, 2018 Liu Xia, Detained Widow of Nobel Peace Laureate, Leaves China BEIJING — The ailing widow of Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese democracy advocate and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who died of cancer last year under police guard, left China for Europe…
Blog Post Jul 2, 2018 The great firewall of China: Xi Jinping’s internet shutdown In December 2015, thousands of tech entrepreneurs and analysts, along with a few international heads of state, gathered in Wuzhen, in southern China, for the country’s second World Internet Conference. At…
Publication Jun 21, 2018 John Oliver, Having Mocked Chinese Censorship, Is Censored in China HONG KONG — In a 20-minute segment about China that aired Sunday on the satirical news show “Last Week Tonight,” the host John Oliver brought up President Xi Jinping’s resemblance…
Media Jun 14, 2018 In China’s Far West, Companies Cash in on Surveillance Program In the far western region of Xinjiang, China has created one of the world’s most sophisticated and intrusive state surveillance systems to target the predominantly Muslim Uighur ethnic minority. Part…
Publication May 2, 2018 ‘Easier to die than live’: Liu Xia, widow of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo By Liao Yiwu, Chinese writer in exile On April 30, 2018, at 4:00 p.m. in Germany, I spoke to Liu Xia at her home in Beijing. She said: “Now, I’ve…
Publication Apr 25, 2018 #MeToo activists in China are turning to the blockchain to dodge censorship Chinese internet users have seen posts referring to the country’s #MeToo movement disappear from WeChat, Weibo, and other popular social networks in recent weeks. In particular, posts about an alleged…
Publication Apr 4, 2018 China human rights: Wife marches for ‘vanished’ husband The wife of a detained Chinese lawyer has begun a march of more than 100km (62 miles) to try to find answers about his fate. Li Wenzu is walking from…
Publication Mar 29, 2018 The Disappeared – China’s Global Kidnapping Campaign Before he disappeared from his luxury apartment at the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong on Jan. 27, 2017, Xiao Jianhua, a Chinese-Canadian billionaire, favored female bodyguards. Why, exactly, was…
Publication Mar 27, 2018 China and Russia accused of waging ‘war on human rights’ at UN China and Russia are leading a stealthy and increasingly successful effort at the United Nations to weaken UN efforts to protect human rights around the world, according to diplomats and…
Publication Mar 23, 2018 U.N. rights experts urge China to provide care for rights lawyer (Reuters) – United Nations experts called on China on Friday to provide medical care to Jiang Tianyong, a prominent human rights lawyer jailed for inciting “subversion”, amid reports of his…
Publication Mar 22, 2018 China Sets up State Monitoring Agency With Sweeping Powers to Detain (RFA) – The law passed by the National People’s Congress (NPC) will set up nationwide supervisory commissions to monitor the conduct of staff in the ruling Chinese Communist Party, People’s…
Publication Mar 21, 2018 Chinese Dissident, Official Trade Barbs at UN Rights Body GENEVA — A Chinese diplomat repeatedly interrupted a speech by a prominent Chinese dissident to block him from addressing the U.N. Human Rights Council, a failed attempt that bared China’s…
