News Nov 21, 2017 China Finds Lawyer Guilty of Inciting Subversion (The New York Times) – A Chinese human rights lawyer who has supported the families of other lawyers and activists detained in a sweeping crackdown since 2015 was declared guilty on Tuesday of inciting subversion by a court in southern China and sentenced to two years in prison.
News Nov 15, 2017 China is perfecting a new method for suppressing dissent on the internet The art of suppressing dissent has been perfected over the years by authoritarian governments. For most of human history, the solution was simple: force.
News Nov 14, 2017 Jesus won’t save you — President Xi Jinping will, Chinese Christians told (The Washington Post) – Jesus Christ won’t drag you out of poverty or cure your illnesses, but the Chinese Communist Party will, so take down those pictures of Christ and put up a nice photograph of President Xi Jinping.
News Nov 14, 2017 HRF mourns the death of Chinese blogger Yang Tongyan Writer and blogger Yang Tongyan , named after Yang Tianshui , a leading figure in the democratic opposition in China, died on Tuesday when he had almost completed a 12-year sentence for “subversion” in Nanjing Prison (Jiangsu Province, Southeast).
News Nov 7, 2017 10 North Koreans Detained in China; ‘We Fear the Worst,’ Activist Says SEOUL, South Korea — Ten North Koreans, including a 3-year-old boy and his mother, have been arrested in China and face being deported to their totalitarian homeland, a rights activist in South Korea said on Tuesday.
News Oct 27, 2017 ‘Baffled’ by Rohingya Stance, U.N. Official Scolds Aung San Suu Kyi The United Nations investigator of human rights abuses in Myanmar expressed deep disappointment Thursday at what she described as an indifferent response by the country’s Nobel laureate leader to the violence raging against the Rohingya Muslim minority.
News Oct 25, 2017 In China, a CreditKarma that factors in your political views… For now, technically, participating in China’s Citizen Scores is voluntary. But by 2020 it will be mandatory. The behaviour of every single citizen and legal person (which includes every company or other entity)in China will be rated and ranked, whether they like it or not.
News Oct 24, 2017 Hong Kong Protest Leaders Are Freed on Bail to Pursue Appeal HONG KONG — The Hong Kong democracy activists Joshua Wong and Nathan Law were released from prison Tuesday after the city’s highest court granted them bail to appeal sentences for what their supporters called political prosecution by the government.
Press Release Oct 23, 2025 China Is Getting Better at Undermining Global Human Rights Since taking office, U.S. President Donald Trump has managed to repeatedly steer the national conversation in all sorts of directions, from the merits of NFL protests to still-unproven allegations that his presidential campaign was wiretapped by the FBI.
Blog Post Oct 18, 2025 Today CCP opened its 19th Party Congress. We call for the release of Gao Zhisheng on this occasion. October 18th marks the beginning of China’s dictatorial Communist Party’s 19th Party Congress. On this occasion, HRF calls for the release of Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng.
Press Release Oct 16, 2017 China: HRF Publishes Report by Missing Human Rights Lawyer Gao Zhisheng NEW YORK (October 16, 2017) — The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) has published Gao Zhisheng’s “2016 Human Rights Report for China.” Gao is a prominent Chinese human rights lawyer who was imprisoned in his home in Shaanxi Province in 2014.
Press Release Aug 16, 2017 HRF Urges Release of Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Wang Quanzhang The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) urges the Chinese government to release human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang unconditionally after more than two years of incommunicado detention
Press Release Aug 15, 2017 Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Gao Zhisheng Goes Missing The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) requests that the Chinese government provide proof of life of human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng and release information on his current location.
