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January 12, 2023 News Release

China: Unprecedented Nationwide Protests Against Abuses

Xi Consolidates Power Amid Covid-19, Economic Challenges

Protesters hold up blank sheets of white paper
November 28, 2022 News Release

China: Respect Right to Peaceful Protest

Unprecedented Nationwide Demonstrations Demand Freedoms

Chinese police officers block off access to a site where protesters had gathered in Shanghai on November 27, 2022.
October 10, 2022 Commentary

Democracies must stand firm against Xi Jinping’s next assault on human rights

Chinese President Xi Jinping waving from a car
September 14, 2022 News Release

China: Xinjiang Official Figures Reveal Higher Prisoner Count

Half-Million Prosecuted, Imprisoned During Crackdown

Guard towers on the perimeter wall of the Urumqi No. 3 Detention Center
September 5, 2022 Report

China: New Evidence of Mass DNA Collection in Tibet

Rural Areas, Children Targeted for Intrusive Policing

Police collecting DNA samples from residents in Dritoe county, Yushu municipality, Qinghai province
April 8, 2021 Commentary

China’s Techno-Authoritarianism Has Gone Global

Washington Needs to Offer an Alternative

Chinese paramilitary police wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus stand guard near the portrait of Chinese leader Mao Zedong on Tiananmen Gate near Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Saturday, January 9, 2021. 
December 9, 2020 Report

China: Big Data Program Targets Xinjiang’s Muslims

Leaked List of Over 2,000 Detainees Demonstrates Automated Repression

2020 Badiucao for Human Rights Watch
April 1, 2020 Commentary

China: Fighting COVID-19 With Automated Tyranny

Government Response Hinged on Invasive New Surveillance Methods

A security guard monitors people through his augmented reality eyewear equipped with an infrared temperature detector in Hangzhou, China, March 24, 2020.
August 16, 2019 Commentary

Data Leviathan: China’s Burgeoning Surveillance State

A Chinese national flag flutters near surveillance cameras mounted on a lamp post in Beijing, March 15, 2019.
May 1, 2019 News Release

China: How Mass Surveillance Works in Xinjiang

‘Reverse Engineering’ Police App Reveals Profiling, Monitoring Strategies

Images of the IJOP surveillance phone app used in Xinjiang, China.
May 1, 2019 Interview

Interview: China’s ‘Big Brother’ App

Unprecedented View into Mass Surveillance of Xinjiang’s Muslims

Images of the IJOP surveillance phone app used in Xinjiang, China.
December 26, 2018 Commentary

China’s Bumbling Police State

The only thing protecting human rights from the bureaucracy? Inefficiency.

A checkpoint in Turpan, Xinjiang. Some of Xinjiang’s checkpoints are equipped with special machines that, in addition to recognizing people through their ID cards or facial recognition, are also vacuuming up people’s identifying information from their
April 18, 2018 Commentary

Cambridge Analytica, Big Data and China

A man is pictured at the venue of China International Big Data Industry Expo in Guiyang, Guizhou province May 27, 2017.
February 26, 2018 News Release

China: Big Data Fuels Crackdown in Minority Region

Predictive Policing Program Flags Individuals for Investigations, Detentions

Chinese police patrol a night market near Id Kah Mosque in Xinjiang, a day before the Eid al-Fitr holiday, June 25, 2017.
December 13, 2017 News Release

China: Minority Region Collects DNA from Millions

Private Information Gathered by Police, Under Guise of Public Health Program

201712asia_china_xinjiang A mural in Xinjiang reads "Stability is a blessing, Instability is a calamity," Yarkand, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China on September 20, 2012.

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