Category: China Human Rights

Chinese Woman in NY Pleads for Help to Rescue Sister Currently Detained by CCP

Na Lyu and Wei Lyu are sisters. The older sister Na lives in New York, and Wei lives in Harbin city in China’s northeastern province of Heilongjiang. Na was notified by family members in China that Wei had been taken away from her apartment on July 11 by a dozen police, who had broken into…


‘Damning’: US Lawmakers Respond to UN Report on CCP Atrocities in Xinjiang

Lawmakers and the White House condemned atrocities committed against ethnic and religious minorities in China’s Xinjiang following the release of a U.N. report on human rights in the region. The report (pdf), published on Aug. 31 by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, detailed abuses committed by the Chinese Communist…


PREMIERING 9/3 7:30PM ET: China’s ‘Walking Dead’: Inside the Warped World of China’s Communist Officialdom | Special Episode Featuring Kay Rubacek

This special episode will premiere Saturday, Sept. 3, at 7:30 p.m. ET. “We live like walking dead—without souls.”—former Chinese police commissioner and deputy chief of the Ministry of Public Security  An opaque regime now at the helm of authoritarianism globally, the Chinese Communist Party has managed to hide much of its inner workings with a massive…


Canadian Embassy Says Its Xinjiang Posts Were Censored on Chinese Social Media

Canada’s embassy in Beijing says censors have removed its posts about a United Nations report on human rights in Xinjiang from two Chinese social media platforms. The embassy Tweeted that it shared Canada’s response to this week’s report on Weibo and WeChat, but the posts were taken down. The report published Wednesday says China’s treatment of…


Foreign Affairs Minister Praises UN Report on China’s Human Rights Issues in Xinjiang

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly praised a United Nations report on the Chinese government’s abuses of ethnic minorities in its northwestern Xinjiang Province, saying that it adds to the mounting evidence of the communist regime’s crimes against humanity. Joly said the release of the assessment report on human rights concerns in Xinjiang, on Aug. 31 by the…


Australia and NZ ‘Deeply Concerned’ at UN Findings of Chinese Human Rights Violations in Xinjiang

The foreign ministers of Australia and New Zealand have expressed their deep concern at the findings and conclusion of the new United Nations (U.N.) report on human rights concerns in Xinjiang and supported calls for China to respond. The 48-page report, published on Sept. 1 by United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet, found evidence…


China’s Treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang May Amount to Crimes Against Humanity: UN

A number of “serious human rights violations” may have been committed against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, China, according to a new report by the U.N.’s Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR). The 48-page report (pdf) was published on Aug. 31 by outgoing U.N. human rights commissioner, Michelle Bachelet, shortly before the end of her term. Bachelet has…


UN Rights Chief’s Tenure Ends in Disappointment for China Activists

GENEVA—Michelle Bachelet, once a political detainee under Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and a doctor for tortured children, pledged to be the champion of victims when she became U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights in 2018. But as her tenure ends on Wednesday, family members and advocates for those caught up in China’s repression of dissent…


China Locks Down World Largest Electronics Market Under ‘Zero-COVID’ Policy

China’s ruling communist party (CCP) has locked down the world’s largest electronics market and the urban districts in its megacity Shenzhen, which is China’s economic center. Meanwhile, a Chinese think tank warned of major risks to China’s economy, calling on the authorities to change the “zero-COVID” policy to help economy. After 11 local COVID-19 cases…


Chinese Regime Flip-Flops on COVID-19 Entry Requirements

China’s ruling communist party (CCP) has recently gone back and forth on its COVID-19 restrictions for entering the country. Just a day after announcing that it was lifting certain entry requirements, the regime stated that it was not loosening control. An expert believes the attempt to loosen restrictions is just for show ahead of the…