Publication Jun 9, 2026 Burmese artist Sai Redacted wins prize for creative dissent At the 2026 Oslo Freedom Forum, Burmese artist Sai Redacted was one of the recipients of the Vaclav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent.
Publication Dec 23, 2025 Calling on President Trump to secure Jimmy Lai’s immediate release We write as Hong Kong community organizations in the United States and international NGOs to urge swift Congressional action in response to the recent guilty verdict against Jimmy Lai and the continued imprisonment of six other Apple Daily executives in Hong Kong.
Publication Dec 23, 2025 Calling for the US Congress to take swift action in response to the guilty verdict against Jimmy Lai We write as Hong Kong community organizations in the United States and international NGOs to urge swift Congressional action in response to the recent guilty verdict against Jimmy Lai and the continued imprisonment of six other Apple Daily executives in Hong Kong.
Publication Dec 10, 2025 Joint NGO World Human Rights Day Statement: Hong Kong Should Immediately Release Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan We, the undersigned legal and civil society organisations, urgently call upon the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government to release Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan without delay, to withdraw all outstanding criminal charges against them, and to quash their previous convictions.
Publication Dec 3, 2025 Joint appeal for a Council of Europe Convention on Transnational Repression We, the undersigned civil society organisations, call upon the Member States of the Council of Europe to take urgent and collective action to address the growing phenomenon of transnational repression (TNR) through the adoption of a Council of Europe Convention dedicated to preventing and combating this serious and evolving threat to human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Europe.
Publication Nov 9, 2025 A huge, flying conflict of interest What does Qatar want from America? Nick Cleveland-Stout on Doha’s massive influence operation in Washington.
Publication Oct 15, 2025 Calling for the release of Gui Minhai, marking the 10th anniversary of his arbitrary detention We, the undersigned press freedom, journalists’, human rights, international organisations, strongly condemn the Chinese government’s ongoing arbitrary detention of Swedish publisher and writer Gui Minhai on the 10th anniversary of his kidnapping.
Publication Sep 30, 2025 Calling for action on systemic abuse and political control in Hong Kong prison As a coalition of 52 civil society organizations committed to human rights and the rule of law, we write collectively to urgently raise serious concerns regarding the systemic abuses occurring inside Hong Kong’s prisons, as detailed in the recent report by the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong (CFHK) Foundation, “We Were Made to Suffer: Systemic Abuse and Political Control Inside Hong Kong’s Prisons” (September 2025).
Publication Aug 25, 2025 Urging the Taiwan government to ensure the at-risk Burmese people are not forcibly returned to Myanmar We, the undersigned civil society organizations, write to express our grave concern over the potential return of Burmese people to Myanmar, where they face a well-documented risk of arbitrary deprivation of life, torture, and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment.
Publication Aug 21, 2025 Hong Kong: RSF and a coalition of 72 NGOs urge UK Prime Minister to secure Jimmy Lai’s release on medical parole RSF_en Partager facebook twitter linkedin Email Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and a coalition of 72 human rights and press freedom organisations are urging British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to secure the release of publisher Jimmy Lai, whose health is dangerously deteriorating after over 1,680 days in detention in Hong Kong.
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.
Publication Aug 8, 2025 Bangkok Art & Culture Centre censors works following visit from Chinese officials The Bangkok Art & Culture Centre (BACC) has removed and obscured several artworks and artists’ names from their current exhibition..
Publication Jul 31, 2025 Calling for companies to fully cut ties with Uyghur forced labor All companies across all industries must extricate their value chains from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (Uyghur Region), known to local people as East Turkistan, to ensure they are not unwittingly bolstering the government of China’s repression of Uyghurs and other Turkic and Muslim-majority peoples.
Publication Jul 31, 2025 Calling for Vultr to reverse its suspension of GreatFire’s FreeWeChat server We, the undersigned human rights, free expression, press freedom and digital rights organisations, are writing in regard to the recent suspension of GreatFire’s server following a complaint submitted by Group-IB on behalf of Tencent.
Publication Jun 25, 2025 Statement to the 59th Session of the UN Human Rights Council marking the 10th anniversary of “709 Crackdown“ This statement is co-sponsored by five NGOs. We thank the Special Rapporteur for her communications regarding Chinese human rights lawyers subject to repression.
Publication Jun 24, 2025 HRF and The Signal present Out of Control “Out of Control” dives deep into the complex realities of financial repression and the tools that empower individuals to resist it.
Publication Jun 24, 2025 Calling for UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to meet with Sebastien Lai, the son of British publisher Jimmy Lai In a joint letter coordinated by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), 33 organisations around the globe have written to UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer asking him to meet Sebastien Lai, the son of British publisher Jimmy Lai who has been arbitrarily jailed in Hong Kong since December 2020.
Publication May 14, 2025 Calling for the release of Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan, marking the 5th anniversary of his arbitrary arrest We, the undersigned press freedom and human rights organisations, strongly condemn the Chinese government’s ongoing arbitrary detention of journalist, human rights defender and former lawyer Zhang Zhan, on the 5th anniversary of her arrest.
Publication May 7, 2025 Condemning the Hong Kong government’s escalating repression of activists in exile and their family members in Hong Kong We, the undersigned civil society and human rights organizations, strongly condemn the Hong Kong government’s escalating repression of activists in exile and their family members in Hong Kong.
Publication Apr 11, 2025 Hong Kong: Solidarity with artist Badiucao as he faces legal harassment The undersigned organisations condemn the harassment of artist, political cartoonist, and activist Badiucao, which has taken place via email, in the media, and on social media in the last week.
