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2022 Beijing Winter Olympics: Confronting the True Face of the CPC
Fourteen years ago, the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics was critical for Chinese leaders to signal to audiences at home and abroad that China had arrived on the world stage as a powerful, respected global player. With the active participation of the international community,...
January 26, 2022
Statement
Please Send a Birthday Wish to My Son
December 14 is the birthday of Wu Gejianxiong—one of the Changsha 3 imprisoned for “subversion of state power” for defending the rights of vulnerable groups. Below is a message from from his father, lawyer Wu Youshui, urging supporters to send their birthday wishes to Wu. Wu was a staff member of...
December 2, 2021
Citizens' Square
Cases of Human Rights Lawyers and Activists – Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi
(Typical cases that demonstrate the worsening human rights situation in China)
December 8, 2021
Citizens' Square
Xu Zhiyong
“On the Protection of Lawyers from Undue Interferences Lawyers May Face in the Free and Independent Exercise of the Legal Profession in China and the Hong Kong SAR”
HRIC submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, Mr. Diego García-Sayán, as input into a report he will present to the Human Rights Council in its 50th session in June 2022 (HRC50).
December 6, 2021
HRIC UN Submission
"Appeal for Comprehensive Physical Examination and Emergency Treatment for Zhang Zhan" (fifth edition with 693 signatures)
November 24, 2021 (updated) In a joint appeal to the director of Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Justice and the warden of Shanghai Women's Prison, where citizen journalist Zhang Zhan is serving a four-year sentence and in declining health, 693 individuals, including rights lawyers, clergymen, and...
November 24, 2021
Citizens' Square
HRIC Joins 44 NGOs in Appeal for Release of Citizen Journalist Zhang Zhan
“As a collective of non-governmental organisations defending human rights and freedom of the press, we urge you to exonerate and release human rights defender, journalist, and former lawyer Zhang Zhan, who is suffering from a critical health condition and may die soon if she remains in detention...
September 17, 2021
Joint Statements
NGO Joint Letter to Hong Kong Secretary for Justice Teresa Cheng Urging Release of Chow Hang-tung
“We, a group of 72 international non-governmental organizations and individuals, are writing to call on your government to drop the charge of “inciting unauthorized assembly” against Chow Hang-tung (鄒幸彤) and unconditionally release her. . . .”
July 20, 2021
Joint Statements
A Tribute to the Women Who Resist: On the Sixth Anniversary of the 709 Crackdown
Some of these women are lawyers and legal advocates who have chosen the difficult path of rights defense on their own. Others are family members of lawyers and legal advocates targeted by the authorities—who have been compelled to take up rights defense in order to protect their own freedom and...
July 8, 2021
HRIC Bulletin
Li Qiaochu
To Remember is to Resist
Inspiration from Hong Kongers prosecuted and sentenced for involvement in the June 4, 2020 candlelight vigil in Victoria Park
June 3, 2021
HRIC Urges China to Lift Travel Ban on Guo Feixiong and Not Create More Family Tragedies
Guo Feixiong ( 郭飞雄 ) , well-known Chinese human rights activist, was stopped at the Shanghai Pudong Airport on January 28 while en route to the United States to care for his ailing wife. The authorities reportedly cited “ suspicion of endangering national security " as the reason. Guo has begun a...
January 28, 2021
Statement
Guo Feixiong

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