Hong Kong’s controversial National Security Law is making itself further felt, this time with Hong Kong schoolchildren in the city’s schools with a drastic revamp to the education that includes. instigating a pro-Beijing curriculum that includes the targeting of liberal studies. Included in new measures issued on February 4 are an increase in monitoring of ...
This Q&A was originally published on November 30, 2015. Dutch journalist and filmmaker Rohan Radheya spent five months undercover to document West Papua’s ongoing struggle for independence from Indonesia’s brutal rule. During Radheya’s time there, the Indonesian president, Joko Widodo, lifted a ban on foreign journalists in the province. That occurred in May, but Radheya says it won’t change anything ...
Swiss authorities are in damage control after it became public knowledge they had a secret 5-year deal that allowed Chinese security agents to “roam freely, unsupervised” in Switzerland. Human rights NGO Safeguard Defenders has investigated the deal after it became public knowledge thanks to an August 23 report by Swiss German-language newspaper NZZ am Sonntag. ...
Hostage diplomacy is a political tactic in which a country keeps a few people from another nation hostage so as to gain an upper hand in negotiations. In recent years, the Chinese regime has turned out to be a major user of this tactic, attracting the ire of the countries that have been affected by ...
Soccer midfielder Mesut Özil, who plays for Arsenal, has been left off of the club’s Europa League and Premier League squads. Özil has previously spoken against China’s persecution of the Uyghur minority and this is speculated to be the reason why he has been sidelined by the team. Punishing Mesut Özil Mikel Arteta, manager of ...
David Stilwell, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, has called China a “lawless bully” for its various human rights violations. He argued that its actions against other nations indicate that it is not a responsible global power. Stilwell made these observations during testimony at the Senate Foreign ...
After the National Security Law came into effect in Hong Kong, authorities have been attacking human rights and pro-democracy activists. Many countries, including the U.S., have condemned the law since it erodes the autonomy of Hong Kong, which was guaranteed to exist until 2047. 5ways the new National Security Law threatens human rights 1. Restrict ...
The family of Chinese human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng has learned that he has been secretly sentenced to four years in jail for “inciting subversion of state power.” Yu’s wife, Xu Yan, received a phone call from the People’s Procuratorate of Xuzhou City on June 17, said a joint statement from rights and civic groups, ...
In many ways, the documentary Finding Courage is an accidental film. Its director, Kay Rubacek from Swoop Films, initially never sought to make it a full-length feature. Having just finished producing the award-winning Hard to Believe documentary — about forced organ harvesting in China — Kay was looking to make her directorial debut with a ...
Protest at Heaven’s Gate is a short documentary that recounts the struggles of three Australians who, along with seven of their compatriots, traveled to China in 2002. They wanted to support persecuted Falun Gong (also known as Falun Dafa) practitioners that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) were torturing in detention centers and labor camps. Just ...
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