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In December, the Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF) issued arrest warrants and 1 million HKD bounties on the heads of five Hong Kong democracy activists and human rights defenders....
Cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/10731283
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Dr. Wenliang’s message went viral, becoming the earliest warning of what we now know today as Covid-19. He returned to work, but contracted Covid from a patient, and died on February 7, 2020....
The Xinjiang region in China is the historical homeland of the Uyghurs, a persecuted Muslim minority. Open data reveals how Chinese influencers are convincing people from across the country to colonise this province....
“As the world watches on in horror at the situation in the Gaza Strip, children in the West Bank are experiencing a nightmare of their own. Living with a near-constant feeling of fear and grief is, sadly, all too common for children affected. Many children report that fear has become a part of their daily life, with many...
Cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/10660247...
This month the Weibo account Weibo Finance, which has more than 1.5 million followers, issued an instruction against posting any comments “that bad-mouth the economy”. The post appears to have since been deleted. Bloomberg reported that several other finance influencers had been told by Weibo to “avoid crossing red...
Nearly 90% of the foreign investment inflows into Chinese equity markets in 2023 has been withdrawn as sentiment crumbles and investors losing confidence in major Chinese institutions....
Cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/10619587...
Sheldon Stone, 68, became involved in Stop Uyghur Genocide after coming across a testimony from a survivor of a Uyghur concentration camp in China....
Tortured in huge internment camps, forced labour and mass sterilisations: The Chinese state’s attack on the Uyghur people, an ethnic minority in western China, is akin to genocide, with an estimated one million people arbitrarily detained. An in-depth look at how Beijing has committed grave human rights offences over decades....
Samira was a child bride married at 15 and a victim of domestic violence. She had two young children, one a new-born baby, when she was arrested and had not seen her children in ten years. She saw them for the first and last time when they came to the prison to say goodbye....
A United Nations review of China’s human rights record set to occur in January should shine a light on Beijing’s atrocity crimes, but China will play the game to their favor which may actually worsen rather than improve the human rights situation inside China, the Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) warns....
"There is that idea that we always thought China would liberalise economically, get freer and freer,” says Lai. “But I think Dad realised very early on, and he said in an interview, that wishful thinking doesn’t work. You’ve got to put the work in. And that’s what he did.”...
A court in New York has ruled that UC Global and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) violated the constitutional rights and privacy of U.S. citizens when they met with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange at Ecuador’s embassy in London....
They will tell us that they are just athletes chasing or hitting balls, but by agreeing to do so in exchange for the huge amounts of money paid to them by Saudi Arabia, they are becoming political actors in a regime that spreads its anti-democratic values throughout the world....
The intelligence failures that allowed the October 7 attack to take place have received some press attention—but have yet to be the focus of sustained political ire....
Nations like France, the United States, Canada, India, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Japan are planning maritime patrols with the Philippines to illustrate their opposition to China’s incursions in the West Philippine Sea.
The official narrative has been that Hamas is weakened, but in reality the IDF’s doctrine of massive force is failing, writes Paul Rogers, emeritus professor of peace studies at UK’s Bradford University.