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BlackRock Tied to China’s Leadership, Consumer Group Warns

Of late, China has been facing flak from many countries for its clandestine activities designed to influence businesses and politicians around the world. The UK and the U.S. have been very vocal and critical regarding this, although China has refuted such allegations. In a recent development that relates to such allegations leveled against the CCP-ruled ...

Max Lu

BlackRock logo on the website homepage looking through a magnifying glass.

Imprisoned Chinese Lawyer Yu Wensheng Honored with International Human Rights Award

Imprisoned Chinese rights lawyer Yu Wensheng has won an international human rights award in recognition of his fight for justice. Yu Wensheng, 54, was named Martin Ennals Award Laureate 2021 during an online ceremony livestreamed from Geneva on February 11. “In 2020, Chinese authorities harassed human rights defenders raising concerns about COVID, defending ethnic minorities, ...

Rory Karsten

Xu Yan, wife of human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng.

Visa Denial: US-China Tensions Escalate

Tensions escalate as the United States administration issued new visa rules to restrict travel by members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and their families in the country. The new policy statement issued on Dec. 3, 2020, limits the maximum duration of B1/B2 non-immigrant business and tourist visas to one month, down from 10 years.  ...

Michael Segarty

Airport flight information.

Xinjiang Hospital Is Harvesting Organs

A hospital in Aksu in the Xinjiang region that was previously dedicated to fighting infectious diseases has apparently been turned into an internment camp. Uyghur activists fear that the camp is being used by the Chinese regime for harvesting organs from inmates.  Harvesting organs Bahtiyar Omar, the director of the Norway-based Uyghur Transitional Justice Database ...

Michael Segarty

Organ harvesting.

UK Government Pressured BBC Segment on Organ Harvesting in China

The United Kingdom’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) used its authority to have BBC cancel a planned program about communist China’s organ harvesting abuses, according to rights figures and members of Parliament.  On Nov. 4, Sir Geoffrey Nice, QC, Chairman of the independent China Tribunal, said during a webinar hosted by the China Research Group ...

Nspirement Staff

BBC Newsnight program.

China Installs Facial Recognition in Religious Institutions

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is extending surveillance technologies like facial recognition in China, with religious places being seen as a critical area to be brought under monitoring. Authorities in Jiangxi Province recently instructed all state-run places of worship to be equipped with facial recognition cameras and allocated 1 million RMB (approx. US$151,253) towards the ...

Nspirement Staff

People stop to have their faces scanned before entering a place of worship in China.