CSW submits this response to the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions, for his report on deaths in custody to be presented at the 53rd session of the Human Rights Council. This submission focuses on deaths in custody affecting Falun Gong practitioners.
Yunnan is something of a testing ground for the management of religious and ethnic affairs in China. The ‘Yunnan model’ is a warning that the situation for religious and ethnic groups across the country could be about to get even worse.
Welcome to our latest edition of China Voices, a quarterly update on freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) in China. So far in 2023, CSW has recorded 82 concerning incidents for various religious or belief groups across China. These have been both offline and online, with several rights activists being forcibly displaced in the name …
This study based on the province of Yunnan will shed light on the Chinese government’s harsh enforcement of repressive religious policies and its impact on religious communities in recent years.
Five Christians who had been detained since August 2022 for leading Bible studies were released on bail by the authorities in China’s Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province on 7 May.
