Category: China Human Rights

Chaotic Scenes in Shanghai Temporary Hospital Amid COVID-19 Outbreak

April 5, 2022
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A mad scramble for supplies emerged in a Shanghai makeshift hospital as the country’s biggest city cobbles together quarantine centers to house its latest surge of COVID-19 patients. Shanghai is under an extended, phased, lockdown to curb an Omicron variant outbreak, with a record 13,000 plus new infections reported on April 4. A municipal official…

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China Censors Activist Who Petitioned CCP Officials For End to Harsh ‘Zero-COVID’ Policy

April 4, 2022
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A Chinese activist, who got out of jail in February after spending over three years in prison for criticizing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), recently issued a public petition demanding Beijing end its harsh “zero-COVID” policy. Ji Xiaolong, a resident in eastern Shanghai’s Pudong district, posted the petition on his social media accounts on Twitter, Facebook,…

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Infected Migrant Workers Blame Chinese Authorities for COVID-19 Spread at Hospitals, Authorities Dismiss as Rumors

April 3, 2022
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Migrant workers from all over China’s northeast have been recruited to Jilin Province, hard hit by COVID-19, to urgently build makeshift hospitals for quarantine. But entire teams of workers were subsequently infected as quarantine patients were sent to the hospitals as construction work was still being completed. According to the workers, local authorities have concealed the…

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Forced Parent-Child Separations Fuel Outrage in Locked-Down Shanghai

April 3, 2022
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Toddlers could be seen lumped in threes or fours on adult hospital beds in one ward, crying out for attention with no adults around. In another room the size of a large conference hall, long stretches of beds could be seen lined up from wall to wall, with only a few adults trying to soothe…

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Chinese Regime Further Eroded Freedom in Hong Kong: US State Department

April 2, 2022
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Freedom continues to deteriorate in Hong Kong as the Chinese regime tightens its grip on the global financial hub, “directly threatening U.S. interests” in the city, the State Department said in the annual report released on March 31. “Over the past year, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has continued to dismantle Hong Kong’s democratic…

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‘World Needs to Wake Up’: Kanter Freedom Calls for ‘Solid Action’ to Punish Communist China for Abuses

April 1, 2022
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Basketball player Enes Kanter Freedom believes it’s time for the world to “wake up” and take action in the face of a belligerent communist China persecuting its own people and exporting its abuses to other parts of the world. “We need to wake up, the world needs to wake up,” he told NTD, an affiliate…

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China’s Legal System Steps Up Use of Secret Detentions

April 1, 2022
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News Analysis On the eve of Jan. 11, former lawyer and human rights defender Xie Yang was on a video call with Lyndon Li, a Chinese law student in England, when police suddenly appeared at his home, and the call ended abruptly. The news leaked out within a few days that Chinese authorities had taken…

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US Commission Calls for Action Against China’s Bullying, Both Internally and Abroad

April 1, 2022
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China’s “horrific” rights abuses and trampling on global order require a “consistent and coordinated” response from Washington and its allies, congressmen called for in an annual report (pdf) released by the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) on March 31. Whether it is systematic repression of human rights domestically, globally economic coercion, or aggressive “wolf warrior”…

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US Commission Calls for Action Against China’s Rights Abuses, Both Internally and Abroad

April 1, 2022
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China’s “horrific” rights abuses and trampling on global order require a “consistent and coordinated” response from Washington and its allies, according to an annual report (pdf) released by the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) on March 31. Whether it is systematic repression of human rights domestically, globally economic coercion, or aggressive “wolf warrior” diplomacy, all…

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CCP’s Lockdown Propaganda Ignites Fury Among Sealed-In Chinese Residents

March 31, 2022
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As many locals struggled to secure their next meal under China’s harsh COVID lockdowns, officials urged calm by launching a social media campaign aimed at showing how well stocked sealed-in residents were. It didn’t end well. It started with a leaked official memo instructing Chinese Communist Party officials in a northeastern Chinese city to flood…

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