The detention of a China-born Australian journalist has further revealed China’s secretive jail system reportedly used to disappear thousands of people. Mid-last month, business journalist Cheng Lei, 45, vanished from her usual place on television state-run CGTN (China Global Television Network). It wasn’t until August 31 that the Australian government revealed that she is being ...
Yu Wensheng is a human rights lawyer from China who was sentenced to four years in prison in June this year after the court found him guilty on charges of “incitement to subvert state power.” Now, his wife, Xu Yan, is worried that her husband might end up becoming disabled from the torture he will ...
Torture is commonly used by Chinese security to force a person to participate in a televised confession, says a new report submitted to the United Nations. Rights group Safeguard Defenders and several other NGOs submitted a comprehensive review on forced televised confessions before trial in China to nine United Nations Special Procedures on August 11. ...
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has released a 72-page report detailing the human rights abuses perpetrated by North Korean police and security officers on North Korean female prisoners. The report contains interviews with more than 100 North Korean female prisoners. Abusing North Korean female prisoners The interviewed women have one ...
In China today, a spiritual practice called Falun Gong is banned, and its practitioners are persecuted. Introduced in 1992 by its founder, Mr. Li Hongzhi, the practice gained popularity across the nation for its health and spiritual benefits. Within 7 years, an estimated 100 million people were practicing the five sets of exercises in public ...
When talking about the persecution of Muslim minorities in China, the Uyghur community largely takes the spotlight in the international media. But there are others who are targeted for cultural genocide, with the minority Kazakh community being one of them. In an interview with the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, a 43-year-old Kazakh woman named Sayragul Sauytbay ...
On July 9, 2015, the Chinese government began to purge human rights lawyers, activists, and legal personnel by illegally sending them to prison. This became known as the 709 crackdown. Yu Wensheng, a 50-year-old Beijing lawyer, was arrested on August 6, 2015, and released after 24 hours. Later, he became the defense attorney for lawyer ...
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