Authorities in Hong Kong have revoked the license of a public school teacher for allegedly promoting pro-independence views, the city’s education bureau said in a news conference on Tuesday. Education secretary Kevin Yeung told journalists that the teacher had designed hisRead More →
After General Yang Baibing, another symposium celebrates Wang Fang, who as Minister of Public Security shared responsibility for the students’ carnage. by Massimo Introvigne Last month, many in the world expressed outrage after a CCP conference held on September 9Read More →
Hundreds of Tibetans, Uyghurs and Hong Kongers and supporters including U.S. lawmakers rallied in in Washington Thursday to mark China’s National Day with protests over deepening Chinese repression in those regions. The rally near the U.S. Capitol — part ofRead More →
A few years ago, Dong Qiongyao, a woman from China’s Hunan province, streamed a protest from in front of a state-owned company where she denounced the Communist Party and splashed ink on a portrait of the country’s leader, Xi Jinping.Read More →
Denied its traditional clothing and identity, a Chamic-speaking people in Hainan Island is challenging the CCP with public protests. by Massimo Introvigne Girls wearing the hijab, the traditional Muslim headscarf, sit outside their school in China, watched by the police. TheyRead More →
A citizen journalist detained in Shanghai after she reported on the emerging coronavirus epidemic in the central Chinese city of Wuhan has lost weight after refusing food in a police-run detention center, her lawyer said on Monday. Zhang Zhan, 37,Read More →
Detained Pro-democracy Activists Denied Basic Rights The Chinese authorities should allow 12 detained Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters, including one child, access to family members and their own lawyers and physicians, Human Rights Watch said today. The group has been held incommunicado in Shenzhen’s YantianRead More →
The CCP’s policy of eradicating cultural, religious, and linguistic identities is systematic, and derives from Xi Jinping’s reflections on the fall of the Soviet Union. by Massimo Introvigne Bitter Winter has documented in the last few weeks the escalation of theRead More →
Hong Kong police on Friday turned down an application by march organizers the Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF) to hold a pro-democracy march on Oct. 1, China’s National Day, saying there was a risk of violence and widespread transmission ofRead More →
The CCP invests considerable funds to revamp China’s revolutionary heritage, using it to indoctrinate people and force them to worship its leaders. by Deng Jie Supported by the central government’s five-year (2016-2020) plan to develop the national “red tourism,” themeRead More →
Prominent Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong was arrested Thursday for taking part in a protest at the height of the city’s pro-democracy unrest last year, but he vowed to continue resisting China’s crackdown on dissent. The arrest of the territory’sRead More →
Although not necessarily involving detention, the CCP’s militarized training of Tibetan workers, sent to work far from home, is suspiciously similar to what is being done to the Uyghurs. by Massimo Introvigne It is called a vicious circle. Tibet’s CCPRead More →
U.S. President Donald Trump called on the United Nations to “hold China accountable for their actions” in a speech to the world body’s General Assembly Tuesday. In a prerecorded speech from the White House, Trump blamed the Chinese government for the global spreadRead More →
European tech companies risk fuelling widespread human rights abuses by selling digital surveillance technology to China’s public security agencies, a new Amnesty International investigation reveals. The findings are published ahead of a crucial meeting in Brussels on 22 September where the EuropeanRead More →
China issued new regulations Saturday on its proposed list of “unreliable entities,” measures that punish foreign companies that Beijing says endanger its national sovereignty and security. According to a statement issued by the commerce ministry on its website, the rules,Read More →
The terminally ill mother of jailed rights activist Huang Qi has been allowed a video call with her son after months of petitioning prison authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan. Huang’s mother Pu Wenqing — a medical doctorRead More →
U.S. Under Secretary of State Keith Krach arrived in Taiwan on Thursday, at the start of a three-day trip that will see him attend a memorial service for the island’s first directly elected leader. Krach, the highest-ranking U.S. official toRead More →
Artist Geng Xiaonan for years quietly helped dissidents and liberal intellectuals who’d crossed China’s Communist Party and lost their jobs or their freedom – most recently ordering online groceries for former Tsinghua University scholar Xu Zhangrun, who was blacklisted by vendorsRead More →
The CCP brings gifted students from Tibet to study in inland China, forcing them to give up their culture, language, and traditions in exchange. by Yuan Wei Chanba No. 1 Middle School in Xi’an, the capital of the northwestern provinceRead More →
Nine people have died and thousands have been detained as the authorities launched a region-wide crackdown on ethnic Mongolians protesting an end to Mongolian-medium education with class boycotts and street protests, a New York-based rights group reported on Monday. “AsRead More →
Battling growing concerns with propaganda, Chinese authorities demand farmers switch to cultivating staple foods, disregarding their needs and circumstances. by Deng Jie President Xi Jinping’s call to curb food waste in China has raised speculations that the country faces imminent food shortagesRead More →
