Three Years After the UN’s Universal Periodic Review, RSF and NGO Coalition Denounce China’s Hypocrisy on Human Rights

“President Xi Jinping’s refusal to implement the human rights commitments he made before the United Nations not only denotes a rare hypocrisy, but also a total disrespect towards the institution”, says RSF East Asia bureau head, Cédric Alviani, who calls on the international community to “build up pressure on the Chinese regime to deter it from continuing its repressive policies and to secure the immediate release of all detained journalists and press freedom defenders”.

Is China Exporting its Surveillance State to Venezuela?

One critical journalist, Ibéyise Pacheco, attributes to CEIEC an even murkier role. She wrote in an April 2021 opinion piece in Diario Las Americas that the Chinese company has taken control of the Venezuelan state-owned telecommunications company, CANTV (Compañía Anónima Nacional de Teléfonos de Venezuela) – Venezuela’s main Internet provider – and from its headquarters in Caracas sabotages and attempts to hack the military software used by countries hostile to Venezuela’s government. 

UN Experts Show Concern on Forced Organ Harvesting in China

At the Taiwan International Religious Freedom Forum in May 2019, ChinaAid led over 70 influential activists, politicians, and religious leaders from around the world in signing the #NoMore Organ Harvesting Declaration. It stated, “On grounds of conscience and basic humanity, I solemnly pledge that I will not receive or accept, directly or indirectly, any organ transplant from China.”

Global call for international human rights monitoring mechanisms on China

When the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Special Procedures, and dozens of states urged China to comply with international human rights standards, China contended that they were “improper remarks” that “grossly interfered” with China’s sovereignty.

A state that tries to hold itself above any kind of scrutiny presents a fundamental threat to human rights.

Heiko Maas, Nathan Law is More Important Than Wang Yi

President of the Czech Senate, Miloš Vystrčil, led an 89-member delegation to visit Taiwan, following which Wang Yi threatened to make him “pay a heavy price.” Maas said that “threats don’t fit in here,” pledging Germany’s solidarity and cooperation with the Czech Republic.

Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore: Success Stories in the Fight Against Covid-19

David Kilgour and Susan Korah | Hong Kong Free Press Like the Titanic striking a massive iceberg in 1912, a deadly novel coronavirus, later named COVID-19, struck Wuhan in China in late 2019. First revealed by local doctors in early December, the virus spread like a global tidal wave and has now infected residents in […]

China’s Appointment to UN Human Rights Council Panel Draws Heavy Criticism

Cathy He | New Tang Dynasty The Chinese regime has been appointed to a panel on the United Nations (U.N.) Human Rights Council that helps select the body’s rights investigators—despite its long track record of severe rights abuses against religious groups, dissidents, and ethnic minorities. Jiang Duan, minister at China’s mission to the U.N. in […]

Three Chinese Rights Lawyers Vulnerable to Torture in Detention: UN Experts

<!–[CDATA[ Man Hoi-tsan and Lu Xi  | Radio Free Asia Three United Nations human rights experts have expressed “grave concern” over the fate of three human rights lawyers forcibly disappeared by the Chinese authorities after attending an informal meeting of dissidents in the southeastern port city of Xiamen in December. Ding Jiaxi, Zhang Zhongshun, and Dai Zhenya are currently […]

China Bid For WIPO Fails, But Beijing UN Plan is Still on Track

<!–[CDATA[ Jane Tang and Lau Siu-fung | Radio Free Asia Singapore’s candidate defeated China’s on Thursday to win a leadership contest at the United Nations’ World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), as Beijing continues to jockey for control and influence at the U.N. Daren Tang, 47, who is the current CEO of Singapore’s intellectual property office, now looks set to take over […]