Tag: China
US official: Blinken not seeking ‘deliverables’ in Beijing
The official trip announcement comes as China’s foreign minister issues a demand for ‘respect’ from America
Chinese police target prominent rights lawyers with harassment, travel bans
Detained lawyer Xie Yang is denied a last video call with his father, terminally ill with COVID-19
US lawmakers introduce bipartisan bill to give priority refugee status to...
The P-2 designation is for Uyghurs oppressed by China for expressing political views and religious beliefs
Hong Kong court quashes conviction of journalist who probed Yuen Long...
In its written judgment, the court found that Choy’s use of the site had been due to “bona fide journalism.”
Illegal religious gathering met with suspension of water and electricity supply...
Cutting off utilities as a means of coercion has been employed in the past by authorities in an attempt to intimidate Christian communities
In China, AI cameras alert police when a banner is unfurled
The surveillance technology is just one example of the proliferation of ‘predictive policing’ in the country
Governments urged to recognize, empower mass movements
Forgetting the lessons of past struggles would mean “normalizing, accepting, and ultimately repeating past abuses”
Hong Kong police detain several prominent democracy figures on Tiananmen anniversary
Beijing has gone to exhaustive lengths to erase the 1989 event from public memory in the mainland
China’s Xi urged to take responsibility for 1989 Tiananmen massacre
Number of living relatives of the victims of the Tiananmen massacre – under the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping – dwindles every year
China pressures Myanmar to proceed on port project amid community concerns
Activists have long campaigned for a halt to the deep sea port, saying that the project was started without the consensus of residents