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Tag: China Human Rights

July 23, 2021

Couple Apply For Asylum in The...

A Chinese national who fled his home country after supporting the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong has arrived in the Netherlands to claim political asylum after a harrowing escape from agents of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spanning the Middle East and eastern Europe

July 22, 2021

Hong Kong Marks Second Anniversary of...

Police were out in force at Yuen Long MTR station on the second anniversary of a mob attack on train passengers there at the height of the 2019 protest movement, as one victim of the attacks told RFA they are still waiting for justice

July 21, 2021

Communist Party Meeting in Tibet Underscores...

Chinese Communist Party officials in Tibet this month reaffirmed Beijing’s hardline policies pushing for Tibet’s complete assimilation into China’s dominant Han culture, calling for “political education” to further weaken Tibetans’ loyalty to exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, according to state media reports

July 20, 2021

Police in China’s Wuhan Hold Man...

Authorities in the central Chinese province of Hubei are holding a man on suspicion of murdering two officials following clashes linked to a forced demolition in the provincial capital, Wuhan

July 17, 2021

Interview: ‘We Are Gravely Concerned About...

Uyghur-American lawyer Nury Turkel, is a vice-chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), a bipartisan and independent federal government body

July 16, 2021

Police in China’s Sichuan Formally Arrest...

Authorities in the southwestern province of Sichuan have formally arrested a prominent rights activist on suspicion of “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble,” a charge often used to target peaceful critics of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), RFA has learned

July 15, 2021

Six Years After the Death of...

Six years after the death in a Chinese prison of a popular Tibetan religious teacher, fair treatment under the law is still being denied to Tibetans living under Beijing’s rule, experts say

July 14, 2021

Noted Uyghur Folklore Professor Serving Prison...

An internationally recognized expert in Uyghur folklore and ethnographer who disappeared in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) more than three years ago has been confirmed as being imprisoned by authorities, according to her former co-workers at Xinjiang University

July 9, 2021

Four Tibetan Monks Handed Harsh Prison...

Chinese authorities in Tibet last year sentenced four Tibetan monks to long prison terms following a violent raid by police on their monastery in Tingri county, a New York-based rights group said in a report released this week

July 8, 2021

Uyghurs Around The World Mark Anniversary...

Uyghur groups around the world have held demonstrations commemorating a violent crackdown on Uyghurs by Chinese authorities 12 years ago in the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR)

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