Li Wenzu from Beijing has been awarded the prestigious Edelstam Prize for her fight in promoting human rights in China, a country that is governed by one of the most oppressive regimes in the world. The prize is instituted in memory of Swedish diplomat Harald Edelstam. This is the first time that the award has ...
At a recent UN session, China declared that it had achieved “remarkable progress” in human rights due to the fact that millions of people have been pulled out of poverty over the past decades. However, China’s claim of promoting human rights was questioned by several countries who were alarmed at the communist regime’s persecution of ...
Over 9 million Chinese citizens have been blocked from buying flight tickets due to their low Social Credit Rating, a system that measures a citizen’s “trustworthiness.” Three million people were also barred from buying business-class train tickets. The Chinese Communist Party plans on fully implementing the system in Beijing starting in 2020. Banning travel to ...
The possibility that communist authorities in China could kill Turkic Muslims en masse in Xinjiang cannot be ruled out, leaders from a Uyghur group said during a panel discussion held at a Sydney university. Leaders of the U.S.-based Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) say the international community needs to effectively respond to the ongoing human ...
China is detaining three U.S. citizens, one male and two females, in a bid to force an alleged criminal to surrender and face charges. The main culprit, Liu Changming, is a former executive of a state-owned bank and is wanted in China for being involved in financial fraud totaling more than a billion dollars. When ...
The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) horrific treatment of the Uyghur Muslim community in Xinjiang has been a hotly debated topic over the past months. With more than a million Uyghurs said to be in detention camps, Western governments and human rights organizations are thinking of ways to hold China accountable for the Uyghur persecution and ...
The Uyghur woman had much difficulty with the Xinjiang police. The Xinjiang police said that they would send her children to an orphanage called the “Angel Center.” The children are “little angels” because the parents of the “little angels” are in prison. They falsified Chinese passports for her two children. I said: “The two children ...
My name is Mina. I am a Uyghur woman who grew up in the city of Korla in Qiemo County of Xinjiang Province, China. In March 2009, I applied for a passport from the authorities, which was not an easy process as it took me nine months and cost over US$5,000. I became a very ...
China has strong censorship policies in place that prevent citizens from accessing websites like Google, Facebook, or any other services that the communist government deems harmful. As a result, millions of young Chinese are growing up without having a proper knowledge of Western societies’ freedom of democracy, history, or free speech. Censorship instead of freedom ...
An independent tribunal to inquire into forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China will hold public hearings in London next month. “The tribunal will investigate if any criminal offences have been committed by state or state-approved organisations in China concerning forced organ harvesting,” said a statement from the International Coalition to End Transplant ...
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