The lesson of China’s broadening interference in the education systems of democratic countries is that if we want academic freedom, we will have to pay for it. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

For decades, Tibetans built a capital in exile in Dharamshala, India, and sent their kids to a school founded by the Dalai Lama. That's now changing.

Think #China #XiJinping’s claims to being a leader on #womensrights ring true? Read @chrdnet.bsky.social co-ED @reneexia.bsky.social’s reflections and see who you find more credible. www.nchrd.org/2025/10/the-...

A hidden reason why there's no #ClimateAction at scale: Less than 3% of int'l aid to slash carbon emissions is supporting a “just transition” for workers & communities away from GHG polluting industries. Many forced to choose btw a secure job & a safe planet www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#China govt targets journalists for speaking truth to power. To mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, #Beijing must free #HuangXueqin, #LiYuanfeng, #ZhangZhan, #ChenJieren & all detained press freedom defenders. 👉 www.un.org/en/observanc...

China was seeking to halt research by Laura Murphy, professor of human rights and contemporary slavery at Sheffield Hallam, into allegations Uyghur Muslims in the north-western region of Xinjiang were subject to forced labour. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Enough crocodile tears. Each year at the UN General Assembly, States ask me the same questions. My answer hasn’t changed: protect human rights defenders, enact & enforce policies, prosecute attackers. Determination is what’s lacking. States must start showing it. #UNGA80

Is this really the problem—that #China govt fines for environmental harms are too high?

The IBAHRI and partners express grave concern for Chinese #HumanRights #lawyer Lu Siwei, who is facing an arbitrary travel ban preventing him from being reunited with his family in the #US and receiving urgent medical care for lung cancer. Read statement: tinyurl.com/mspebkav

Police broke into Christian #SunXue 's home after 1am on Oct 13, handcuffed & took him without a warrant. When his mother asked for a detention notice, police shouted & threatened her—showing #China govt's disregard for due process. 👉 wqw2010.blogspot.com/2025/10/9.html

This week's @minjianarchives.bsky.social newsletter is by one of China's foremost public intellectuals, Ai Xiaoming, on an investigation she wrote on the myth that China's natural scientists were insulated from Mao-era political campaigns. EN/ZH. chinaunofficialarchives.substack.com/p/19571967

Translations: “How Can a Country That Blocks the Nobel Website Hope to Win a Nobel Prize?” "To sum up: if the winner was backed by the Chinese government, it’s the correct decision; if not, it’s using the Nobel Prize to fan anti-China sentiment."

#China: Today, on the 10-year anniversary of the kidnapping of poet, bookseller and PEN member, Gui Minhai, 65 PEN Centres around the world renew our demand for his immediate and unconditional release. Read our joint statement ⬇️ www.pen-international.org/news/china-p... #FreeGuiMinhai

If #Sweden 🇸🇪 FM @mariastenergard.bsky.social plans to bring #GuiMinhai home from this landmark visit to #China--super. If not, this is a profoundly perverse way of marking the tenth anniversary of his disappearance. @swedishpm.bsky.social @chrdnet.bsky.social www.regeringen.se/pressmeddela...

New events! 📆17th & 24th Oct 🕥10:30am Thailand Time ANFREL - Asian Network for Free Elections hold 2 webinars on political rights and movements in ASEAN "Election Updates and Regional Democratic Trends. Live on Youtube: www.youtube.com/@AsianNetwor...

🚨 CHRD warns #China govt's proposed revisions to the Prison Law falls short of intl standards. Key concerns: ❌ No independent oversight mechanism ❌ Limited family/lawyer access ❌ Expanded solitary confinement ❌ Unchecked prison labor ❌ Vague national security provisions www.nchrd.org/2025/10/revi...

Sympathy for foreign firms having trouble with #China govt? Few external actors have done more to undermine progress on #humanrights there--all the while claiming they were part of the solution, turning profits, and disdaining human rights #duediligence. wsjchina.cmail19.com/t/d-e-gehljy...

人权律师 #卢思位 近日接受法广采访表示，8月刑满出狱后，检查发现肺结节问题恶化，医生说已属肺癌的初步。 www.rfi.fr/cn/%E4%B8%AD... 因医保被断，卢思位选择观察半年后再决定；他多次向政保要求自由出入境，惟当局不肯放行； #妻子张春晓 呼吁当局让卢思位保外就医，在家人陪同和照顾下接受治疗。

I started to read this piece on #Tibet #YarlungTsangpo Dam expecting to learn more about #China govt approach to hydro, but there is a great deal more here on #politics #power #security, too. madeinchinajournal.com/2025/09/04/t...

From @Stanford @SCCEI summation of a book I'm keen to read: "The [#China] #Gaokao, in effect, is not just an academic test — it is a gate into an entirely different social contract." www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Chinese newsletters: Xi Jinping wants a spot in your inbox – The Economist: ‘The Economist has identified over a dozen writers on Substack who are employed by China’s state media.’

Who gets to decide what art you can see outside China? In some cases, as in #Thailand of late, apparently #China #XiJinping govt calls the shots. Curator Flees Bangkok After China Deems His Art Show Too Provocative www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/w...

#China govt efforts to legislate "ethnic unity" doesn't protect existing #humanrights. Rather, it sets up even more #arbitrarydetentions on baseless charges of "splittism," "separatism"; runs contrary to intl law obligations, including #CERD. @chrdnet.bsky.social npcobserver.com/legislation/...

Staggering figures--imagine if #China govt respected (as it's bound by law to do) key #laborrights, including the right to form independent unions. People like Chen Guojiang pay a high price for trying: www.nchrd.org/2021/03/chin... www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

New week is here #MilkTeaAlliance & here is the upcoming events🧵 We saw Hong Kongers keep their 2014 promise in 2019, we also saw another 2019 "㷛底見" we believe it will also be kept. Friends in Myanmar say ကမ္ဘာမကြေဘူး We dream similar dreams of a free future. Never give up, persist 1/

Good to see these concerns about environmental damage done by fireworks in #Tibet; better still to also see it about mega-dams like #YarlungTsangpo, mines, roads, and other infrastructure projects causing serious harms.

Such sad news to hear of Jerome Cohen’s death. No foreigner knew the law in #China like he did. Apart from having a brilliant intellect, and an adventurous spirit - which led him to practice law inside China then go on to defend dissidents here etc - he was a funny, giving person who will be missed.

A toxic mining spill devastated Zambian farmers’ livelihoods, releasing millions of gallons of waste into the environment. The Chinese company responsible told shareholders the spill did not have “a significant impact.”

"Although many #Hongkongers have found greater freedom in the #UK, the struggle to preserve their mother tongue continues. 'Either staying in #HongKong or...in the UK, they face the marginalisation of their culture,' Wong says. 'That really hits me personally'." www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

"... #Beijing ’s intolerance of free speech has increasingly global implications," said @sophiedrich.bsky.social commenting on Chinese journalist #ZhangZhan reportedly put on trial today for “picking quarrels.” 👉 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

中国人权捍卫者 @chrdnet.bsky.social 联席执行主任 @sophiedrich.bsky.social 表示： ➡️任意拘留的系统性还表现在系统性地剥夺公平审判权，将和平言论定为犯罪，并歧视少数群体 ➡️最常用的罪名是寻衅滋事和危害国家安全 ➡️任意拘留甚至通过“不释放的释放”延续到获释之后 ➡️敦促中国根据国际标准修改立法，全面落实联合国建议

New event 📆18th Sept 🕓4pm WIB @globalvoices.org host Panel "Bridging Asia’s climate divide: cross border reporting on China's BRI" w/ @brianhioe.bsky.social & more Live on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@Globalvoice... Details: globalvoices.org/2025/09/16/g...

#邹巍、#昝爱宗 海祭晓波案 据民生观察报道， 9月16日，昝爱宗案开庭审理； 9月19日，邹巍案将开庭审理。 msguancha.com/plus/view.ph... 2024年7月13日，#刘晓波 逝世7周年，浙江公民 浙江公民 #邹巍、 #昝爱宗、 #庄道鹤、 #毛庆祥、 #汪雪娥 （吕耿松夫人）、 #程云惠 （王东海遗孀）、 #严忠良 等七人在钱塘江入海口举行海祭活动，次日凌晨警方抓捕六人，四人被训诫、做笔录后获释，20日昝爱宗、邹巍被刑拘。

人权捍卫者 #徐秦： ➡️约见高邮市信访局局长 ➡️申请公开《人力资源社会保障部文件》人社部发[2024]74号 ➡️要求提供相关法律依据 ➡️退休金受法律保护 ➡️社保局明知当事人被捕，为掠夺个人财产找借口 综上，要求社保局立即停止侵权，并返还非法扣除当事人的所有的养老金资金，恢复应有的养老金待遇。 9月15日，高邮社保局人员约谈徐秦，告知以后将以每月扣发形式扣回她从进看守所到出狱共四年养老金，如徐秦不同意，他们将起诉。 wqw2010.blogspot.com/2025/09/blog... 徐秦关押压期间被 #刑讯逼供； 今年7月获释后，仍遭 #严密监控。

🇨🇳 features prominently in the UN SG's #Reprisal report released today, incl. domestic targeting of defenders and #TNR (transnational repression). We stand in solidarity with victims. Say their names. Demand courage for accountability. www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry89...

1/THREAD: @AP has published our investigation into how US tech firms enabled China’s digital police state. We obtained multiple, massive leaks of internal and classified Chinese government and corporate documents running into the tens of thousands: apnews.com/article/chin...

“In 2023 #China struck an agreement to boost security for the #PacificGames, held in the #SolomonIslands that year. The athletes left when the games wrapped up, but Chinese cops are still there.” www.economist.com/asia/2025/09...

In which I said to Americans: “I just can’t emphasize enough to be braver than you think you can. If you don’t pay the middle price now, you’re gonna pay a huge price. People go to jail, people disappear, people die for the right to speak, now you only need to lose your job.” pen.org/what-oversea...

Why is UN Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications Melissa Fleming addressing this forum when its framing is clearly explicitly anti-journalism and counter to UN values — not to mention explicitly anti-US in rhetoric? The UN entity profile: 2/4 lingua-sinica.org/dispatch/uni...

The forum is a prime example of how the party-state is using provinces in its global communication strategy. We have called this "centralization+" — because the center is still decisive, but local resources being applied. The Yunnan CCP is involved here: 3/4 lingua-sinica.org/dispatch/yun...

Looking forward to this discussion later today—on #China govt #arbitrarydetention, incl as possible #crimesagainsthumanity. Eager to hear @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social @rizwangvl.bsky.social @yalkun.bsky.social @vdraphael.bsky.social @wgeid.bsky.social thoughts. PoCs need urgent relief!

🛎️ Happening today: A great lineup of experts @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social @sophiedrich.bsky.social and witnesses on human rights, arbitrary detention, persecution of rights defenders in #China, in the #Uyghur region, by the Chinese government.👇 Watch live: www.YouTube.com/@CHRDnet

Noting the new limitations (in paper at least) about #China authorities collecting biodata: all the more reason why what’s been gathered arbitrarily from #Tibetans #Uyghurs and others should be destroyed and violators held accountable. Collection was never legal. npcobserver.com/2025/08/26/c...

Perhaps at some point #China govt could just try providing social services minus the off-the-charts surveillance? www.wsj.com/world/china/...

@chrdnet.bsky.social proud 2 team up w @rizwangvl.bsky.social @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social @vdraphael.bsky.social @yalkun.bsky.social to talk about #China govt’s widespread, systematic #humanrights abuses, esp scourge of #arbitrarydetention. Goal: ending impunity. Watch online: youtube.com/@CHRDnet

Internal directives for 2025 show heightened vigilance. A Chengdu “cybersecurity” memo warns of “Tibetan independence” & anti-China activity online, especially around the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday & TAR’s 60th anniversary.

New week begins #MilkTeaAlliance & here is the events🧵 We have watched our friends in Indonesia rise up in against the gov't corruption & brutality, to be met with more violence by the state. Peoples demands in 3rd pic Can donate to medical & legal assistance here: kitabisa.com/campaign/unt... 1/

To start with, We along w/ 210 orgs & 62 individuals inc @pvamplify.bsky.social @bloodmoneycampaign.bsky.social @newbloommag.net signed this statement: Indonesia: Protecting the Right to Protest: International Solidarity with Indonesia #StopPoliceBrutality! forum-asia.org/indonesia-pr... 7/