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May 16, 2022 News

Student in Nigeria Murdered Over Blasphemy Allegation

Ensure Justice, Abolish Blasphemy Laws

A female student, Deborah Samuel, was gruesomely murdered in Nigeria’s northwestern Sokoto state last week after she was accused of blasphemy. Efforts by the authorities to identify and arrest those involved in her murder have been met with protests,…

March 28, 2022 News

Australia Inquiry on Beijing Academic Freedom Threats

Foreign Interference, Harassment of Students and Academics

On Friday, the Australian parliament’s Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security released their long-awaited report examining foreign interference at Australian universities. During their inquiry, the committee heard evidence that Chinese…

Two students walking on a university campus

December 15, 2021 News

Chinese Authorities Double Down on Tibetan Reincarnations

Communist Party Aims to Control Dalai Lama Selection

In late November, a senior local Chinese Communist Party official toured three townships in Sog, a county in the Tibet Autonomous Region that has a history of resistance to state controls on religion. His goal: to ensure local Tibetan officials…

Graduates of a training course in official policy on the recognition of reincarnations in Ngamring County, Shigatse Municipality, Tibet Autonomous Region

December 2, 2021 News

IOC Doubles Down on Losing China Strategy

International Olympic Committee Should Help Secure Peng Shuai’s Safety

“We have taken a very human and person-centred approach to her situation,” the International Olympics Committee (IOC) said in a December 2 statement, revealing it had held a second closed call with Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai. Meanwhile, Peng has…

Two men speak to each other while seated

March 8, 2021 News

Japanese Firms to Reassess Businesses Using Xinjiang Forced Labor

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As the international outcry grows over the Chinese government’s arbitrary detention, forced labor and other egregious abuses against Turkic Muslims in the northwest region of Xinjiang, 12 Japanese companies recently told Kyodo News that they would “…

In this file image from undated video footage run by China's CCTV via AP Video, Muslim trainees work in a garment factory at the Hotan Vocational Education and Training Center in Hotan, Xinjiang, northwest China.

November 19, 2020 News

Still no Accountability for Hong Kong’s Police Force

Among the gloomy news coming out of Hong Kong is a bright spot: on November 19, the Hong Kong High Court ruled that the government had violated its Bill of Rights by not providing an independent mechanism for complaints about police. Two days earlier…

A protester is tackled by riot police during a demonstration outside the Legislative Council in Hong Kong, June 12, 2019.

September 8, 2020 News

Australian Journalists Forced to Leave China

Australia Should Press for Greater Scrutiny of Beijing at UN Rights Council

The Australian government helped two Australian journalists living in China leave the country yesterday after a five-day diplomatic standoff. Amid fears for their safety, Bill Birtles of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation sheltered in…

In this image made from a video, Australian Broadcasting Corp. journalist Bill Birtles speaks to the media on his arrival at Sydney airport, Australia, September 8, 2020.

July 9, 2020 News

US Takes Key Action for Human Rights in China

Sanctions Targeting Xinjiang Officials Address Serious Abuse

The US government took a crucial step for human rights in China today by imposing targeted sanctions on four top Xinjiang officials, freezing their assets in the United States and banning them from entering the country. This is the second time the US…

A Uighur woman picking up school children rides past a picture showing China's President Xi Jinping joining hands with a group of Uighur elders at the Unity New Village in Hotan, in western China's Xinjiang region.

November 26, 2019 News

Nigerians Should Say No to Social Media Bill

Proposal Would Criminalize Criticism of Government

Nigerian campaigners are speaking out against a bill that would regulate engagement on social media with the campaign #SayNoToSocialMediaBill. The Protection from Internet Falsehood and Manipulation Bill 2019 was presented in the Senate…

Two men check their phones in Kaduna, Nigeria

September 26, 2019 News

Hong Kong Leader’s ‘Listening Mode’ Isn’t Enough

Carrie Lam’s Community Dialogue Session No Substitute for Accountability, Change

Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam yesterday spent more than two hours facing angry questions and condemnations from people at a “community dialogue session,” organized after four months of massive street protests. This effort to show she…

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam at community dialogue in Hong Kong

June 28, 2019 News

Nigeria’s Wavering Commitment to Freedom of Expression

Broad Claims of National Security Threaten Rights

Nigerian authorities appear to be on a renewed drive to muzzle free speech. Earlier this month, the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC) suspended the broadcast licenses of two subsidiaries of Daar Communications, the…

March 18, 2019 News

Taiwanese Activist at Risk in Chinese Prison

Two Years in Detention, Li Ming-che Faces Ill-Treatment, Declining Health

March 19 marks two years since police in China’s Guangdong province forcibly disappeared Taiwanese democracy activist Li Ming-che. Authorities eventually charged Li with “subversion of state power” for having online discussions about…

Pro-democracy protesters carry a photo of detained Taiwanese rights activist Lee Ming-Che (L) and other activists during a demonstration in Hong Kong, China September 11, 2017.

January 9, 2019 News

China Spies on International Media in Hong Kong

Will Hong Kong Authorities Investigate?

After a Wall Street Journal investigation revealed that mainland Chinese police had conducted “full…surveillance” on the Journal’s reporters working in Hong Kong, the territory’s Secretary for Security John Lee responded with a…

December 10, 2018 News

5 Questions for Google About Controversial China Search Project

Congress Should Press Sundar Pichai Over Project Dragonfly

Google CEO Sundar Pichai will be in the hot seat tomorrow when he testifies before the United States House Judiciary Committee following an outcry over its plans to re-enter the Chinese search market. A coalition of more than…

November 21, 2018 News

China’s Social Media Crackdown Targets Twitter

Authorities Digitally Erase Even Past Critical Speech

Since early November, the Chinese government has been targeting Twitter users in China as part of a nationwide crackdown on social media – even though Twitter is blocked in the country. Authorities have detained or summoned dozens or…

November 15, 2018 News

Glaring Omission in Security Council Plan to Visit China

One Million Uighurs in Detention Deserve World’s Attention

The United Nations Security Council, which typically only leaves New York City to travel to conflict zones, is heading to China later this month. Beijing, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the Council, has planned the trip to…

China: One Belt, One Road, Lots of Obligations PHOTO

November 1, 2018 News

Egyptian Government Should Investigate Abuses, Not Attack the Messenger

Hundreds of Cases of ‘Disappearances’ and Torture Reported Under al-Sisi’s Government

Instead of protecting its citizens from torture and forced disappearances, the Egyptian government prefers to criticize and attack groups calling for investigations. Human Rights Watch published evidence several weeks ago…

July 30, 2018 News

Kazakhstan Shouldn’t Deport Asylum Seeker to China

Ethnic Kazakh Woman Denounced ‘Political Reeducation’ Camps

Sayragul Sauytbai, an ethnic Kazakh woman with Chinese citizenship, is one of few people who have dared to speak publicly about China’s abusive “political reeducation” camps across Xinjiang. Earlier this year, Sauytbai fled Xinjiang to…

Ethnic-Kazakh Chinese citizen Sayragul Sauytbay in court in Zharkent, Kazkhstan, July, 2018.

April 12, 2018 News

In China, a March to Find Her Husband

Wife of Forcibly Disappeared Rights Lawyer Harassed

Li Wenzu yelled to onlookers from the balcony of her Beijing home, where on Wednesday she was briefly put under house arrest along with her 5-year-old son: “My husband is a lawyer. In normal times, he helps ordinary people go to court.…

Li Wenzu, wife of lawyer Wang Quanzhang, who was detained in what is known as the "709" crackdown, joins others protesting in front of the Supreme People's Procuratorate in Beijing, China July 7, 2017.

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