Category: China Human Rights

International Lawmakers Call for the Release of 47 Hong Kong Activists After One Year of Detention

A coalition of international lawmakers calls for the immediate release of 47 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists arrested by the city’s national security police a year ago. “The arrests demonstrated beyond any doubt the Chinese government’s intent to use the National Security Law to wipe out all forms of political opposition in Hong Kong,” said the…


Ukraine’s Zelensky in a Modern-Day David Vs Goliath Battle

Commentary A Jewish Ukrainian family had four brothers. Three brothers were murdered by the Nazis. Only one survived. His grandson is the current president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. The relationship between Ukraine and its Jewish community is a tragic one. From the pogroms that led to a mass exodus and migration of Jews out of…


Swedish Olympic Champion Donates Gold Medal to Imprisoned Author and Bookseller in China

Swedish double Olympic speed skating champion Nils van der Poel has donated one of his gold medals to Chinese-born Swedish citizen Gui Minhai, an author and a bookseller who is serving a prison term in China. The skater, who won the 5,000 meter event at the Beijing Olympics and then broke the world record during…


CCP ‘Openly Recruiting Spies in the United States’: Michigan State Senator

The fear of someone informing on them to the Chinese Communist Party, and of the possible harm inflicted on family members in China, is so powerful and pervasive that some members of the Chinese-American community are ill-inclined even to speak to their elected representatives at public events, according to Michigan State Sen. Jim Runestad. “The…


China’s ‘Chained Woman’ Scandal Fuels Outrage in Los Angeles

Crowds of Chinese Americans held rallies in Los Angeles, calling for global attention to China’s “chained mother” amid billions of views on the subject on China’s social media platforms. On Feb. 19, demonstrators held SOS signs and handed out flyers at the Hollywood Walk of Fame, speaking up for an alleged victim of human trafficking in…


‘None of Us Should Ever Buy Another Product Made in Communist China’: Sen. Scott on Holding CCP Accountable for Abuses

Grappling with the extensive human rights abuses in China and with Beijing’s failure to abide by its treaty commitments requires decisive action on the economic, trade, diplomatic, legislative, and anti-espionage fronts, according to Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.). “China has decided to be our adversary. And we’re in a new Cold War that they started,” Scott…


CCP’s High-Tech Repression in Xinjiang Calls for Tougher Sanctions: Advocates

The Chinese regime’s aggressive rollout of new technologies to step up its repression of Uyghurs in western China calls for new responses on the part of allied nations outraged at the human rights abuses, said panelists at a recent virtual event hosted by The Brookings Institution think tank. Laura Rosenberger, senior director for China and…


CCP ‘Wants to Dominate the World’: Rep. Perry Says America’s Adversary Is the CCP, Not the People of China

U.S. lawmakers concerned about human rights in China, and their supporters, need to be exceedingly clear that their quarrel is with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and not with the people of China, said Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.). The many human rights abuses in China, involving myriad issues such as forced labor camps, concentration camps,…


China in 2022 One of the Least Free Countries in the World: Report

China today ranks as one of the countries in the world with the very lowest levels of political freedom and freedom of expression, according to advocacy group Freedom House’s annual “Freedom in the World” report released on Feb. 24. On a list of 210 countries and territories ranked according to freedom of speech, the right…


Is China’s Investigation of the ‘Chained Woman’ Set to Do Her More Harm Than Good?

Parents in China understand the need to keep a close eye on their children: to prevent them from wandering off, as there is an ever-present risk of child abduction. Over there, the idea of children being stolen, sold, and enslaved is not an abstract notion or an isolated circumstance—it’s a day-to-day reality. In 1995, a…