Chinese authorities have arrested a Vatican-appointed Catholic bishop, seven priests, and an unspecified number of seminarians in Hebei Province, according to a report from UCANews. The priests and seminarians were reportedly detained on 20 May for “allegedly violating the country’s repressive new regulations on religious affairs.” 63-year-old Bishop Joseph Zhang Weizhu of Xinxiang Diocese was arrested the following …
Chinese pastor Yang Hua of Living Stone Church was attacked and beaten by a government official in a police station in Guiyang, Guizhou Province on 23 May. CSW has learned that the perpetrator of the attack was in plainclothes but claimed he represented the district level Committee of Political and Legal Affairs. Pastor Yang Hua …
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These are the words of the brave Chinese citizen journalist and former lawyer Zhang Zhan. For her, seeking the truth meant travelling to China’s Wuhan in February 2020, right at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic. There, she published videos and articles reporting on the crisis to both Twitter and YouTube, both of which are blocked in China. Zhang’s reporting, and particularly her questioning of whether the Chinese authorities’ response to the pandemic had infringed on human rights unsurprisingly provoked the ire of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). On 14 May 2020, a year ago today, she was seized by Shanghai police in her hotel room in Wuhan and taken to a detention centre in Shanghai.
CSW welcomes increased scrutiny of the grave human rights situation in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) at a high-level UN event, where UN Member States called for further engagement and action to end human rights violations. The event, which was sponsored by 18 UN Member States and other stakeholders, was a rare show of collective …
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Zhang Chunlei, an elder of Love (Ren’ai) Reformed Church in Guiyang in China’s southwestern Guizhou province, has been officially arrested and accused of fraud after nearly seven weeks in detention. Mr Zhang was first placed under administrative detention for ‘illegally operating as an association’ on 16 March 2021. His detention followed a police raid on a Christian …
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