Video Series Feb 10, 2026 Owen Chow’s Birthday Behind Bars Today marks the fifth year Hong Kong pro-democracy leader Owen Chow is spending his birthday behind bars.
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.
Video Series Dec 24, 2025 Dear A-Ba || An Open Letter to Pastor Jin This Christmas, Grace Jin Drexel reads a public letter to her father, Pastor Mingri “Ezra” Jin, founder of one of China’s largest underground house churches.
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.
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.
Press Release Jun 4, 2025 Remembering the Tiananmen Square massacre Today marks the 36th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, when the Chinese regime unleashed tanks and armed troops to crush a peaceful student movement demanding freedom and democracy. The brutal crackdown shocked the world and continues to cast a long shadow over China’s appalling human rights record.
Op-Ed Jun 4, 2025 When even remembering is a crime: China’s Tiananmen Square massacre, 36 years on While the streets of Hong Kong may now fall silent on June 4, Tiananmen’s memory has not vanished — it has gone global.
Video Series May 26, 2025 Nyrola Elimä | Endless Exodus Nyrola Elimä is an independent journalist and researcher specializing in human rights and supply chains.
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.
Video Series Nov 22, 2022 Gao Zhen: Arbitrarily Detained Just for Creating Art Chinese artist Gao Zhen was arrested for creating art that confronts the dark truths of China’s Cultural Revolution. He remains in jail to this day.
Video Series Sep 6, 2024 The Uyghur Region | The Struggle for Freedom, Explained In this episode of “The Struggle for Freedom, Explained” Jewher Ilham, renowned Uyghur advocate and daughter of Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti, and Peter Irwin, Associate Director of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, explain the Chinese regime’s targeted human rights abuses of the Uyghur people, and how China is exploiting Uyghurs for its economic goals. Watch the episode to learn more.
Video Series Jun 4, 2024 Sebastien Lai | A 76-Year Quest for Freedom Sebastien Lai is leading the international campaign to free his father, Jimmy Lai, a freedom of speech champion, media entrepreneur, and owner of the now-shuttered newspaper Apple Daily.
Video Series Dec 4, 2023 Chemi Lhamo || All for the Land of Snow: A Story of Tibetan Resilience At the 2023 Oslo Freedom Forum in Taiwan, Tibetan activist and community organizer Chemi Lhamo took the stage to expose the Chinese government’s tactics to repress the Tibetan people and called upon the international community to join in solidarity to fight against these abuses.
Video Series Dec 4, 2024 Joey Siu || From Hong Kong to the World: Uniting in Solidarity Hong Kong activist and HRF Freedom Fellow, Joey Siu, took to the 2023 Oslo Freedom Forum in Taiwan stage to call for international advocacy efforts for democracy and freedom in Hong Kong.
Report Jun 1, 2020 Corporate Intimidation and Censorship in China Since China’s rise as a global trade giant, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has leveraged its position in the global economy to intimidate foreign companies into becoming indirect messengers of its political ideology. Since the 1990s, the Chinese government has exerted pressure…
