Category: China Human Rights

Beijing Issues Electronic Wristbands to Bus Drivers for ‘State Security’

Beijing’s long-haul bus drivers will wear a new gadget for “emotion sensing” and monitoring of vital signs, with the purpose of facilitating security control in the city prior to the Party’s 20th National Congress. Beijing Public Transportation Group (BPTG) issued 1,800 electronic wristbands on Sept. 21 to bus drivers who drive on freeways and who cross…


Chinese Openly Oppose the Regime’s Zero-COVID Policy, as the CCP Party Congress Approaches

China’s ruling communist party (CCP) further tightened its control across the country in the name of curbing COVID-19 in the weeks before the CCP’s national party meeting in mid-October. Chinese citizens openly express opposition to the regime’s zero-COVID policy that has caused immense suffering and countless tragedies. A recent bus accident in Guizhou Province in…


Chinese Openly Oppose Regime’s Zero-COVID Policy Ahead of CCP Party Congress

Chinese citizens are openly expressing opposition to the communist regime’s highly restrictive zero-COVID policy, which has caused immense suffering, in the weeks before the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) national party meeting in mid-October. A recent bus accident in Guizhou Province in southwest China is sparking public anger over the policy. Early on Sept. 18, 27 people…


Lhasa Residents: ‘Isolated for Over 40 Days, With No Income, We Can’t Hold on Any Longer!’

Lhasa, the capital of western China’s Tibetan region, is drawing worldwide attention after a recent COVID-19 flare-up. The city—with population estimates ranging from 300,000 to around 900,000—has suffered chaotic pandemic management during a lockdown that has lasted over a month. Local authorities closed off parts of the city and mass-tested residents under the zero-COVID policies…


Canada’s New Ambassador to China Highlights Beijing Regime’s Human Rights Issues

Canada’s newly appointed envoy to Beijing says there are many different human rights issues when it comes to China, and she will not shy away from shining the spotlight on such issues during her time as ambassador. Jennifer May, who has worked as a diplomat for 30 years, told the the Toronto Star on Sept. 22…


Family Marks 5th Year of Disappearance of Chinese Human Rights Lawyer

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng’s wife Geng He unveiled a sculpture of Gao at the Victims of Communism Museum in Washington D.C., on Sept. 20. The sculpture is a floating portrait of Gao Zhisheng made by Geng He and their two children using 7,355 bullet shells. Due to his work defending persecuted…


Former Diplomatic Official Calls for Sanctions on Americans Involved With China’s Slave Labor

Robert Destro, former assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, has called for sanctions on Americans who are involved with China’s slave labor. Destro pointed to anti-human trafficking and forced labor laws such as the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), which President Joe Biden signed into law in December of 2021 and…


Former Official Calls for Sanctions on Americans Involved With China’s Slave Labor

Robert Destro, former assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, has called for sanctions on Americans who are involved with China’s slave labor. Destro pointed to anti-human trafficking and forced labor laws such as the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), which President Joe Biden signed into law in December of 2021 and…


NBA Free Agent Enes Kanter Freedom Calls China ‘A Real Threat to the World’

The Chinese regime is “a real threat to the world” right now, said former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom during an interview with NTD news, a sister media outlet of The Epoch Times, at a special webinar on “The Case for Decoupling From China” on Capitol Hill. “No one can invade [the] USA from the…


Excellent Example of Journalists Protecting Press Freedom

Panorama , an Italian weekly news magazine, published an article exposing China’s barbaric practice of forced organ harvesting, that is, procuring transplant organs from living, unconsenting, prisoners of conscience, and killing them in the process. The August 24 article titled “China: When the State Wants Your Organs” triggered a typical wolf-worrier-like response from the Chinese…