Category: detention

Detainee Says China Has Secret Jail in Dubai, Holds Uyghurs

August 16, 2021
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A young Chinese woman says she was held for eight days at a Chinese-run secret detention facility in Dubai, along with at least two Uyghurs, in what may be the first evidence that China is operating a “black site” beyond its borders. Wu Huan, 26, was on the run to avoid extradition to China because…

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‘Closed and Opaque’: Australia Decries China’s Legal Process for Detained Writer Yang Hengjun

May 22, 2021
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Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne has called out the Chinese Communist Party’s lack of transparency regarding an impending closed-door trial of Australian writer Yang Hengjun who has been detained in China since January 2019. She indicated that Beijing has failed to conform to the basic standards of international norms of transparency and implored the communist regime to…

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Foreign Journalists in China See ‘Rapid Decline in Media Freedom’: Survey

March 1, 2021
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BEIJING—China used coronavirus prevention measures, intimidation, and visa curbs to limit foreign reporting in 2020, ushering in a “rapid decline in media freedom,” the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) said on Monday. For the third year in a row, no journalists told the group that working conditions had improved, the FCCC said in an…

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Australian Journalist Cheng Lei Formally Arrested in China

February 7, 2021
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Australian journalist Cheng Lei was formally arrested in China on Feb. 5 on suspicion of illegally supplying state secrets overseas, after being detained for six months without charge. Cheng, 49, was a news anchor for CGTN, the international arm of the Chinese regime’s state broadcaster, CCTV, before being detained in Beijing in August 2020 amid testy relations…

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