The export of China's Great Firewall model is on the rise. Cyber sovereignty has has 'gained traction in autocratic states,’ says ARTICLE 19's @mcaster.bsky.social – ‘and we’re unfortunately seeing similar language in democratic countries too.’ www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

What does China’s influence in digital governance and cybersecurity say about its wider global ambitions? ARTICLE 19’s Michael Caster outlines the threats to democracy and human rights – and what the international community can do to protect free speech. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

#UK: RSF and press freedom NGOs, including Article 19, urge State Secretary Lisa Nandy to pause and investigate the planned #Telegraph sale to an investor with reported close ties to the Chinese regime, warning robust safeguards are vital to protect editorial independence.

We join @article19.bsky.social, @rsf.org and others in an open letter to Lisa Nandy raising urgent concerns over the potential acquisition of the Telegraph Media Group by RedBird Capital, in light of ties to #China: www.article19.org/resources/op...

I caught up with @mcaster.bsky.social and I-Chen Liu of @article19.bsky.social on their 2025 report on China's Digital Digital Silk Road: "Cybersecurity with Chinese Characteristics". We talked about UN, ASEAN, the upcoming Hanoi Convention. Have a watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t5a...

A new report by @article19.bsky.social traces how China’s targeting of protesters has evolved since the Tiananmen Square massacre into part of a sophisticated transnational repression campaign using harassment, violence and surveillance. #ChinaTargets Read more:

Please join us on June 4TH for an @article19.bsky.social webinar & report launch: From #Tiananmen to transnational repression - #China's assault on the right to protest. I'm excited to be joined by experts @zhoufengsuo.bsky.social @zumretayarkin.bsky.social & @aimenlau.bsky.social QR 4 registration!

On the eve of the #Tiananmen anniversary, @whyyoutouzhele X account - renowned for protest related content - is again shadow banned, amid some 800 inauthentic Teacher Li accounts. Fake accounts game the algorithm to silence expression. It is part of Beijing's arsenal of influence.

🔥FLAME OF FREEDOM: @zhoufengsuo.bsky.social recalls meeting a #HongKonger in #Beijing in 1989, the spirit of resistance that united them, and how it lives on through Chow Hang-tung and others who refuse to forget the #TiananmenSquareMassacre. Read the blog: thecfhk.org/the-spirit-o...

Please join us on June 4TH for an @article19.bsky.social webinar & report launch: From #Tiananmen to transnational repression - #China's assault on the right to protest. I'm excited to be joined by experts @zhoufengsuo.bsky.social @zumretayarkin.bsky.social & @aimenlau.bsky.social QR 4 registration!

I will be speaking on June 4th, 2025 about transnational repression against PRC dissidents alongside some stellar panelists for @article19.bsky.social, please join us if you can! @mcaster.bsky.social

New event! 📆4th June 🕛Midday UK time @article19.bsky.social launch new report "From Tiananmen to transnational repression China's assault on the right to protest" w/ @aimenlau.bsky.social @zumretayarkin.bsky.social @mcaster.bsky.social @zhoufengsuo.bsky.social

The arrest of Anna Kwok’s family is a shocking escalation in Hong Kong's transnational repression and use of the draconian national security law – for the first time weaponised against the families of wanted activists. They must be released immediately! www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

#China 🇨🇳 @globalvoices.org interviews @mcaster.bsky.social of ARTICLE 19 about the importance of looking into the digital security norms increasingly imposed by China in the larger Asia-Pacific region. buff.ly/kENeHEA @article19.bsky.social

”The sacrifices that RFA reporters make knowing they’re the last line of defense for their countrymen are often unimaginable…Now these brave journalists…may be silenced by the very nation whose belief in press freedom inspired them in the first place.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/o...

This is beyond outrageous! #HongKong authorities have sunk to a new despicable low in their escalating transnational repression in arresting the father and brother of human rights defender in exile Anna Kwok, executive director of Hong Kong Democracy Council. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

China’s new anti-sanctions give authorities even more power to punish tech companies, risking censorship, surveillance, and human rights. Read @mcaster.bsky.social’s analysis via @techpolicypress.bsky.social: www.techpolicy.press/chinas-anti-...

#China 🌏 @mcaster.bsky.social of @article19.bsky.social writes about Xi Jinping's visit to #Cambodia, #Malaysia, & #Vietnam and their implications on digital infrastructure, governance, and free speech in the region.

An informative read from @mcaster.bsky.social @article19law.bsky.social on the growing risks to tech companies (some already complicit in #humanrights violations) in #China stemming from the anti-foreign sanctions regime—and the deepening risks to #freespeech. techpolicy.press/chinas-anti-...

New event: Join @engagemedia.org for Cybersecurity with Chinese Characteristics: Digital Governance in the Indo-Pacific and the Taiwanese Alternative 📆May 5 | 2PM BKK time 🗣️With @mcaster.bsky.social, Lulu Kang, and OPEN Culture Foundation Board Member Liu I-Chen. engagemedia.org/2025/drapac-...

US State Dept country "human rights reports" to drop virtually all reporting on rights violations. This is not only an abdication of responsibility to hold foreign perpetrators accountable but also a harbinger of the likely increase in domestic rights assault in US. www.npr.org/2025/04/18/n...

@mcaster.bsky.social warns that Xi Jinping’s Southeast Asia tour could deepen digital repression. China’s push for tech cooperation with Vietnam, Cambodia, and Malaysia risks exporting surveillance and censorship models. www.article19.org/resources/ch...

I am deeply grateful and honored to have such powerful support from 40+ organisations from around the world stand in solidarity as I face legal harassment in relation to my recent protest art 'Here and Now' in Hong Kong. www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/04/the-...

We join 40+ organisations standing in solidarity with artist, political cartoonist and activist @badiucao.bsky.social, who faces ongoing harassment for his work. Art Innovation Gallery must immediately drop their legal threats against him: www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/04/the-...

#HongKong: @article19.bsky.social joins @indexoncensorship.org and 38 other organizations in expressing solidarity with artist @badiucao.bsky.social as he faces legal harassment www.article19.org/resources/ho...

#HongKong: Drop national security charges for social media posts - @article19.bsky.social calls for immediate and unconditional release of Chow Kim-ho www.article19.org/resources/ho...

#China/#Vietnam: Suspicious Death of Tibetan High Lama - Alleged Chinese Role in Arrest of Humkar Dorje Rinpoche Following Flight from #Tibet www.hrw.org/news/2025/04...

🇨🇳 Over the past decade, China has massively expanded its digital infrastructure investment worldwide. 🎙️ On the latest episode of the China Global podcast, @bglaser.bsky.social welcomes @mcaster.bsky.social to discuss Chinese digital governance in the Indo-Pacific. 🎧 Listen Now: bit.ly/3YdcNTD

My latest Trump’s tariff threats on "Liberation Day" will likely comprise another blow to Europe and a gift to China wapo.st/3FPm2Dj

CPJ has submitted three amicus briefs together with @rcfp.org in support of @radiofreeeurope.bsky.social and @voanews.com.web.brid.gy. We assert that shuttering them destroys their editorial independence, thereby putting their journalists at grave risk. cpj.org/2025/04/cpj-... 📷: AFP/Michal Cizek

Shameless: Italian art org claiming inspiration from Banksy's subversiveness, says 'enhancing and promoting art' has nothing to do with the freedom of expression 🤔🤔!! Claims apathy to the type of government in #China, but siding with #HongKong to censor @badiucao.bsky.social artwork is political

"HERE AND NOW" —— A video work by Badiucao for Hong Kong 2025 Vertical Billboard | 33A, Argyle Street, Mong Kok Horizontal Billboard | 6-12 Sai Yeung Choi Street South, Mong Kok March 28 to April 3 | From 10 am to 10pm every hour - every days

Excited to join @bglaser.bsky.social and @gmfus.bsky.social for this fascinating episode of the China Global Podcast to discuss @article19.bsky.social work on the Digital Silk Road and China's digital governance norms setting in the Indo-Pacific. www.gmfus.org/news/chinas-...

China sale of deep-sea surveillance robots to Middle East buyer signals deepening tech Sealien Robotics’ sale of cutting-edge subsea system to mystery buyer is latest sign of China’s progress in global undersea tech race www.scmp.com/news/china/s...

Last week, a court in Shanghai sentenced #Taiwan -based book publisher Li Yanhe (Fucha) to three years in prison. @article19.bsky.social calls on #China to immediately and unconditionally release him and end its assault on the freedom expression in Taiwan. www.article19.org/resources/re...

75% of US-based staff at Radio Free Asia were just put on administrative leave due to an executive order signed by US President Donald Trump. This decision endangers RFA staff abroad & could lead to the deportation of US-based journalists facing persecution in their home countries.

New event! 📆25th March 🕙22:00 JPN Time HK Lady Liberty & Asia Democracy Network hold webinar "The Hong Kong 47 and the Erosion of Rule of Law under the National Security law" w/ @joeysiu.bsky.social @mcaster.bsky.social (Of @article19.bsky.social) & more Reg: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

RFA has a $60 million budget, a drop in the bucket. Missing the forest for the trees. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/u...

Index on Censorship stands in solidarity with Voice of America, @rferl.org.web.brid.gy and Radio Free Asia. Our statement ⬇️ www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/03/stan...

JUST IN: Federal officials placed 1,000 employees at Voice of America on indefinite paid leave, while severing contracts with Radio Free Asia and other U.S.-funded networks.

"The termination of RFA’s grant is a reward to dictators and despots, including the Chinese Communist Party, who would like nothing better than to have their influence go unchecked in the information space." Radio Free Asia President Statement, www.rfa.org/english/abou...

The US charges ahead in making the world safer for #China & other authoritarian states. Crippling Radio Free Asia shutters a critical tool in countering PRC information warfare & supporting those struggling under autocracies across Asia. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Zuckerberg’s Meta considered sharing user data with China, whistleblower alleges – The Washington Post: ‘in a failed attempt to win the approval of the Chinese Communist Party and bring Facebook to millions of internet users in China’

China’s promotion of authoritarian cybersecurity norms in the Indo-Pacific is a canary in the coalmine for the international community, new @article19.bsky.social report on China's cybersecurity governance and how Taiwan offers policy alternatives www.article19.org/resources/ch...

"The moves come at a time when #China, the main rival of America, has overtaken the United States in number of global diplomatic posts. China has forged strong ties across nations, especially in Asia and Africa, and exerts greater power in international organizations."

"When you see important societal actors... changing their behavior in order to avoid the wrath of the government, that’s a sign that we’ve crossed the line into some form of authoritarianism,” Steven Levitsky co-author of 'How Democracies Die.' www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

When it hosts the next international AI summit, Amber Sinha (@ambersinha07.bsky.social) expects the Indian government to focus on innovation, investments, and access issues while evading scrutiny of its low-rights legal environment, which is ripe for untested technological experiments.

Thank you @article19.bsky.social @mcaster.bsky.social for supporting the #JimmyLaiBill 👏 All #British journalists should receive support, including consular assistance, from their own government that is legally guaranteed. @blairmcdougall.com www.article19.org/resources/uk...

In an open letter to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Foreign Secretary David Lammy, @article19.bsky.social has urged the United Kingdom to support the #JimmyLai Bill, which is due for a second reading before Parliament on 7 March, 2025. www.article19.org/resources/uk...