Category: China Human Rights

Beijing Labels 80,000 Online Posts as ‘Rumors’ Ahead of National Party Congress

October 5, 2022
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China’s top cyberspace watchdog announced Sept. 29 that it has labeled some 80,000 online posts as “rumors” since August in a campaign targeting “online rumors and false information”. According to a statement of the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), it has organized 12 major Chinese digital news portals and social media platforms to “refute and…

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Anti-CCP Protests Held in More Than 10 Cities in UK on China’s National Day

October 4, 2022
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Oct. 1 marked the 73rd anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party regime. Under the “Hong Kong National Security Law,” protests have disappeared in Hong Kong. However, Hongkongers have held demonstrations against the CCP in the UK, the U.S., Canada, Taiwan, and other places. Demonstrations took were held in many places in the…

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Five Suicides in Tibet Due to ‘Extreme Hardship‘ in Lockdown: Report

October 3, 2022
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The “extreme hardships” in Tibet, where the Chinese regime has imposed harsh lockdowns, are behind five recent suicides, according to a human rights advocacy group. The lockdown in the west border region—which has dragged on for over 50 days—caused “a spate of suicides” in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, according to the Washington-based International Campaign…

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Activist Launches Twitter Campaign Calling for Attention to China’s Political Prisoners

October 2, 2022
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A former Chinese human rights lawyer now based in the United States has launched a Twitter campaign to bring international attention to the situation of China’s political prisoners, following the brutal prison assault and death of the father of “ink girl,” known for inking over public posters of Xi Jinping. Lawyer Wang Qingpeng told The Epoch Times…

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Falun Gong Adherents Brave Rain in Brooklyn to Denounce Chinese Communist Party’s Abuses

October 2, 2022
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NEW YORK CITY, N.Y.—Heavy rain and cold winds did not deter hundreds of Falun Gong practitioners from parading down Brooklyn’s Chinatown on Oct. 2 to call for an end to the Chinese Communist Party’s 23-year-long persecution of the spiritual group. Participants, drenched by the rain despite many of them wearing yellow plastic rain jackets, held…

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Unofficial Chinese Police Stations in Canada Likely Number More Than 3, Says Report Co-Author

October 2, 2022
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The Chinese regime has likely established more unofficial overseas police stations in Canada than the three in Toronto identified in a report by a human rights NGO, a co-author of the report says. Spain-based Safeguard Defenders published a report in September warning of the regime’s “long-arm policing” around the world through what’s been dubbed the “110…

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UK Groups Jointly Urge Liz Truss to Hark Human Rights Concerns, Sanction CCP Officials and Publicly Stand Against CCP

October 2, 2022
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On the eve of the 73rd anniversary National Day in Communist China, a total of nine British human rights organizations, including Hongkongers in Britain, Global Alliance for Tibet and Persecuted Minorities, and Stop Uyghur Genocide, wrote to the new British Prime Minister Liz Truss. The organizations urged the British government to pay heed to the threats…

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People Locked Down in Xinjiang Unable to Visit Hometowns for China’s National Day Holiday

October 2, 2022
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Many people in China’s Xinjiang region can’t leave to visit their hometowns during the week-long “October First” holiday– the regime’s “National day” under its restrictive zero-COVID-19 control measures. Meanwhile, protests broke out against the indefinite lockdowns. Most of Xinjiang, which is in China’s northwest and home to an ethnic Uyghur majority, has now been under COVID-19…

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“Glory to Hong Kong”: When Playing a Song Is Sedition

October 1, 2022
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If Hongkongers had to choose one thing to represent their time of fighting for freedom, it would be singing “Glory to Hong Kong” during the anti-extradition movement. Since then, the unofficial Hong Kong anthem has been characterized as an anti-government song. On multiple occasions, performers who played the song have been arrested and charged by…

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Box Office Hit ‘Return to Dust’ Disappears From Chinese Theatres and Streaming Services

October 1, 2022
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A popular Chinese love-story movie was removed from all Chinese theatres and streaming services only weeks after its release. The arthouse movie “Return to Dust,” with a budget of 2 million yuan (about $280,000), tells the story of a couple in an arranged marriage who live in a rural area of China’s northwestern Gansu Province….

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