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Over 600 parliamentarians have signed a joint statement calling on China to end human rights violations against Falun Gong practitioners on the 21st anniversary of the beginning of the Chinese authorities’ systematic crackdown on the group. The statement, signed by parliamentarians from across the globe, claims “Since July 1999, millions…

Today, 9 July, marks the fifth anniversary of China’s infamous 709 Crackdown, in which over 300 lawyers, human rights defenders, and their colleagues and family members were detained, interrogated or imprisoned. The 709 Crackdown, named after the date on which it started, is regarded as one of the worst crackdowns…

The National People’s Congress Standing Committee, China’s highest legislative body, has passed a new national security law for Hong Kong amid grave human rights concerns raised by activists and residents. Religious communities in the city, as well as the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, have also expressed concerns about…

CSW has welcomed a joint statement signed by 50 United Nations (UN) Independent Experts calling on the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) to take urgent action to monitor human rights violations in China. In the statement, issued on 26 June, the experts claim “it is time for renewed attention on…

Uyghur groups have welcomed the signing into law of the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 by US President Donald Trump on 17 June. The Act authorises sanctions against Chinese officials deemed responsible for the mass arbitrary detention of ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).

Xiamen city authorities destroyed property and parts of a building belonging to Xingguang Church on 11 June in the second raid on the church in just over a month, according to an open statement by a Chinese pastor on social media. Authorities had previously shut down a Sunday service at…

In a video statement to mark the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in China on 4 June 2020, CSW’s Chief Executive Mervyn Thomas says: “CSW, together with organisations and individuals around the world, will be remembering this event and standing in solidarity with family members of victims who…

Authorities in China’s Xiamen shut down a Sunday service at Xingguang Church on 3 May, injuring several church members and damaging property during the process. Witnesses report that police violently dispersed church members, removing those who resisted by force. One church member sustained several significant injuries, including two fractured ribs….

Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang was released from prison on 5 April 2020 and immediately placed into quarantine for 14 days, hundreds of kilometres from his family.

A new report by CSW on the situation of oppressed religious communities in China is released today amid concerns that some of these groups are especially vulnerable to the spread of the coronavirus and its wider impact on freedoms in China. The report, entitled ‘Repressed, Removed, Re-Educated: The stranglehold on…