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…
Publication Feb 28, 2018 Report: China Bans Letter ‘N’ From the Internet to Stop Xi Dissent (Daily Beast) – You can’t spell dissent without an N—and that was literally the case in China, which temporarily banned the letter from internet searches in a mysterious move to…
Press Release Feb 27, 2018 China Must Not Abolish Presidential Term Limits NEW YORK (February 27, 2018) — The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) condemns the Chinese Communist Party’s proposal to abolish the two-term limit on the presidency. The intended abolition clears the…
Publication Feb 15, 2018 Chinese Lawyers Pen Open Letter in Protest of Professional Persecution (Radio Free Asia) – Dozens of Chinese lawyers have signed an open letter calling on the ruling Chinese Communist Party to respect their professional rights and release all detained human…
Media Feb 5, 2018 China’s RSDL a licence to disappear, hold and torture dissenters China, which British Prime Minister Theresa May visited last week and with which the Vatican has reportedly signed a controversial deal, is a land of euphemisms. Underneath the glistening bright…