From January 18 to 19, 2018, the European Federation for Freedom of Belief (FOB) organized a convention on the theme of “Law and Freedom of Belief in Europe, A Difficult Journey” in Sant’Apollonia Auditorium in Florence, Italy. Read More →
Around 120,000 ethnic Uyghurs are currently being held in political re-education camps in Kashgar (in Chinese, Kashi) prefecture of northwest China’s Xinjiang region alone, according to a security official with knowledge of the detention system.Read More →
Recently, Human Rights Without Frontiers International issued a document on its official website, urging the authorities of all European Union member states to grant political asylum to Christians of The Church of Almighty God (CAG), who have fled overseas due to the brutal persecution against their faith.Read More →
In a resolution passed by a majority of votes, members of the European Parliament called on China on Thursday to respect provisions in its own constitution guaranteeing the rights of Tibetans and other Chinese citizens to freedom of speech, religious belief, and assembly, including the right to criticize or protest against state policy.Read More →
The wife of Chinese rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong, who was jailed last November for two years for “incitement to subvert state power,” says he recently received a visit from his father at the Changsha No. 1 Detention Center, and that he will be transferred in March from the police-run facility to prison to serve the remainder of his sentence.Read More →
Authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan have jailed a group of Protestant Christians for up to 13 years for involvement in an “evil cult,” their lawyer said on Thursday.Read More →
Seoul has seemingly decided to deport over six hundred Chinese members of the Church of Almighty God seeking a safe haven in South Korea, despite the fact that there is a high risk for them to be arrested, detained, and tortured in China.Read More →
Since early 2017, the Chinese government has increased nationwide arrests of members of The Church of Almighty God (CAG), under an initiative they call “Door-knocking Action”. Read More →
Confusion surrounded the status of Liu Xia, widow of late Nobel laureate and political prisoner Liu Xiaobo, on Tuesday following a report that she had been cleared by the ruling Chinese Communist Party to leave the country.Read More →
Scores of police and local officials demolished a large church in the Shanxi Province city of Linfen on Tuesday, thwarting efforts by congregants to halt the demolition and pressuring them to remain silent, witnesses told RFA’s Cantonese Service.Read More →
