COVID-19: How human rights can help protect us
2020-03-23
The way governments decide to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic will impact the human rights of millions of people.Read More →
Coronavirus Technology Carries Troubling Side Effects for Privacy, Press Freedom
2020-03-22
Mobile apps and data collection deployed to help contain the coronavirus have a troubling side effect — the potential for long-term government invasions of privacy and surveillance that could be used against independent journalists.Read More →
China: Reverse Ban on American Journalists
2020-03-19
The Chinese government should immediately reverse its decision to expel reporters from three major US media outlets, Human Rights Watch said today.Read More →
China: Expulsion of US journalists further stifles access to information amid COVID-19 crisis
2020-03-18
The Chinese government today demanded US journalists working at the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post whose press credentials expire by the end of 2020 to return their press cards within 10 days.Read More →
State Broadcaster-Turned-Citizen Journalist Incommunicado in Virus-Hit Wuhan
2020-02-29
A former news anchor with China’s state broadcaster CCTV who quit his job to report from the front line of the coronavirus epidemic in the central province of Hubei is incommunicado, believed detained.Read More →
China Detains, Harasses Journalist, Academics Over Reports, Comments on Coronavirus
2020-02-11
Chinese citizen journalist and lawyer Chen Qiushi is incommunicado, believed detained, after reporting from the front line of the coronavirus epidemic in the central city of Wuhan.Read More →
China Jails Student For Tweets Sent in US Showing President as Winnie The Pooh
2020-01-24
A student who tweeted a cartoon of Winnie the Pooh in connection with President Xi Jinping while studying in the U.S. was jailed for six months on his return to China for the summer vacation last year.Read More →
Police in China’s Guangdong Release Journalist Turned #MeToo Activist on ‘Bail’
2020-01-18
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have release women’s rights activist and independent journalist Sophia Huang, also known as Huang Xueqin, on “bail,” ahead of the Lunar New Year celebrations at the end of the month, rights groups said.Read More →
20 Bitter Winter Reporters Vanished in the Air
2019-12-13
Writing for Bitter Winter is a crime in China. 45 of our reporters were arrested. 20 are still in custody but we don’t know where – actually, we cannot even confirm they are alive.Read More →
UN human rights expert alarmed at rise in Cambodia arrests
2019-11-09
A UN human rights expert is calling on the Cambodian Government to respect its citizens’ rights of freedom of opinion, expression and assembly, amid concerns over escalating tensions and a political crackdown across the country. More than 200 cases ofRead More →
UN, Activists Call for More Protection for Journalists
2019-11-03
GENEVA – The United Nations and human rights defenders are calling for greater protections for journalists as the world observes this year’s International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists. The gruesome murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi inRead More →
VOA Reporters Freed After Hours-long Detention by Chinese Authorities
2018-08-14
Chinese authorities detained a Voice of America Mandarin Service correspondent and a multimedia journalist working for VOA for at least six hours Monday evening. The two journalists were taken into custody as they attempted to interview a retired Chinese professorRead More →
Chinese Ministry of State Security Takes Over the Campaign Against Bitter Winter
2018-08-04
Since the arrests of reporters did not stop Bitter Winter, China escalates the campaign against our magazine and adopts extraordinary measures to prevent the leaks of secret documents.
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Arrested for Sending Reports to Bitter Winter
2018-08-02
On August 1, Bitter Winter, a publication of CESNUR, the Center for Studies on New Religions, reports: The Chinese police launched a national operation against Bitter Winter. Reporters and others who sent information to us were arrested, while false rumorsRead More →
Wife of Critical Chinese-American Journalist Disappears in China
2018-01-29
The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned about the disappearance of the wife of a critical American-Chinese journalist and today called on police in China to disclose whether they have her in custody. Read More →