In China, June is a sombre month for those who remember the mass pro-democracy protests across the country and the military’s bloody crackdown in 1989. Remembrance itself is an act of defiance against the suppression and manipulation of history by the Chinese authorities. Each year, events are held worldwide to pay tributes to the victims …
CSW welcomes a joint statement delivered by Canada on 22 June on the human rights situation in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) at the 47th session of the UN Human Rights Council. The joint statement, signed by 44 UN member states, expressed grave concern about the human rights situation in the XUAR, including “reports of torture or cruel, inhuman …
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CSW joins calls by the family of Uyghur retired doctor Gulshan Abbas for her immediate release from prison in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. On 12 June, Dr Abbas’ birthday, her daughter Ziba Murat tweeted a video calling for her mother’s immediate release. On the same day, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken tweeted: “Today is …
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Chinese Christian Gao Heng was criminally detained by the authorities hours after holding up a placard reading “June 4, Pray for the Nation” in a subway station in Guangzhou on 4 June 2021, the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. For decades, the Chinese authorities have completely supressed any act of remembrance of 4 …
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Introduction The removal of crosses from Christian buildings, the demolition of churches, and the arrest of Christians in China over the past few years has been widely reported. Alongside these violations of the right to freedom of religion or belief, there are a number of new developments which indicate that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has …
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As the world marks the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre on 4 June 1989, there will reportedly be no in-person vigil in Hong Kong for the first time since 1990. In June 1989, Chinese army troops brutally supressed peaceful protests for freedom and democracy, killing and wounding thousands of people in Tiananmen Square in …
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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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