#張雅笛 被捕是「一件 #跨國鎮壓 案例。中國留學生的抗爭行動恐怕已遭嚴密監控。它的影響是使每個人都對自己的一言一行感到十分擔心，包括在中國國外。」- 人權觀察 @mayawang.bsky.social 對《自由亞洲電台》表示： www.rfa.org/english/chin...

Our latest case of #transnationalrepression: a young Chinese woman studying in France has disappeared some seven weeks ago while on a trip to visit her family in Hunan province. She is an editor for the digital platform “Chinese Youth Stand for Tibet” (CYST) www.tibetanreview.net/chinese-intl...

‼️ A Chinese student has been missing during her visit home due to her activism for Tibetan rights while studying in France. Lawyer Jiang Tianyong, who represents her, has been taken into custody during a meeting with her parents. French govt should press for their freedom.

As people in China, including many young people, tighten their belts, dumpster-diving (or more precisely, picking vegetables thrown out by wholesale veggie sellers, 捡菜) has become a fashionable trend:

For years there are allegations of the spread of China's Great Firewall (especially by Myanmar activists) but there had been no concrete proof--until now. This looks like an incredibly important contribution: www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

I'll speak at a #HRC60 side event on human rights in China, alongside Mary Lawlor, Rizwangul NurMuhammed, and Sophie Richardson, moderated by Raphael Viana David. We'll discuss the chilling effects of arbitrary detention and enforced disappearances in China on human rights and offer recommendations.

While the world celebrated the 90th birthday of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama this July, Tibetans inside Tibet faced brutal repression- owning a photo, singing in his honour, or organising a simple prayer can lead to arrest, torture, or disappearance under Chinese occupation

"Some diplomats asked me if it is still worth making public statements about abuses in Xinjiang...The answer is a resounding yes." Heartbreaking and personal by @yalkun.bsky.social China's committed crimes against humanity and should be held accountable: thehill.com/opinion/inte...

"A government can’t half care about human rights. And Australia’s ‘disagree where we must’ approach with China enables abuse and undermines [Australia's] national interest." Excellent piece by my colleague @dgavshon.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/law/commenti...

就在 #中國共產黨 紀念二戰勝利80週年並大秀軍事實力的同時，批評中共惡劣人權記錄的聲音也日益高漲。 從 #彭立發 和2022年 #白紙運動 ，到湖南 #方藝融 、四川 #梅世林 的布條抗議行動，再到今個月在重慶、北京各地陸續出現的反習標語，這些抗爭的共通點是：即使中國政府鎮壓日益緊迫，仍然不斷出現無畏的公民，甘冒巨大風險，公開批評習近平並要求民主改革。 中共盛大的閱兵背後，掩藏著中國共產黨高壓統治的潛在弱點：在執政超過70年後，中共依然最害怕自己的人民，只因他們屢屢以勇敢的行動要求民主與人權。 @mayawang.bsky.social

Yes there's the state-of-the-art weaponry, yes there are the goose-stepping soldiers. But beneath this show of strength of a dictators' club, there is an enduring anxiety: of the people standing up for their rights. My modest piece: www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Young Chinese scholar of Uyghur culture, missing since 2018, is reportedly sentenced to 15 years in prison hrichina.substack.com/p/young-chin... This stunningly harsh sentence is in fact typical during Xinjiang's abusive crackdown, where baseless prison terms are *12.5 years on average*.

China refuses to release the environmental assessment report of the world's largest dam, claiming it's a "state secret." It said earlier that the dam, being built in Tibet and will have impact on India + Bangladesh, is "a safe project that prioritises ecological protection".

"That Xi felt compelled to overshadow the Dalai Lama's 90th birthday with a carefully choreographed display of power only reveals Beijing's enduring anxiety: Tibet remains less a success story of integration than a fragile frontier" asia.nikkei.com/opinion/xi-j...

Ecuador settles with Chinese state-owned company that built a $3.3 billion dam that later developed > 17,000 cracks in it + it "is under threat from the backward erosion of the Coca River". In China, people are familiar with such "tofu dregs " projects: fundacionandresbello.org/en/news/ecua...

人權律師 #高智晟 被中國當局 #強迫失蹤 至今已整整八年。高律師曾處理過多宗維權案件，因此被當局吊銷律師執照、施以酷刑、強迫失蹤和囚禁。他在2016年出版回憶錄，討論包括中國未來民主化等議題後，在2017年8月被當局強迫失蹤。 中國政府應立刻釋放高智晟，以及所有被關押的人權倡議者。 高智晟： wqw2010.blogspot.com/2024/08/blog...

> 100,000 Myanmar refugees in Thailand have lost access to essential food & medical aid due to US funding cuts. The Thai government should immediately permit refugees to lawfully work and travel outside its refugee camps, @hrw says www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...

Hundreds of Israeli attacks since Oct 2023 have struck > 500 school buildings, many used as shelters, killing hundreds of civilians + damaging *nearly all* of Gaza’s schools, @hrw says: www.hrw.org/news/2025/08... These "include unlawfully indiscriminate attacks using US munitions".

Seems like the position of the Chinese Foreign Minister is cursed: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... + periodic reminder that nobody is safe in China where there's no rule of law, no matter how rich you are or how high you climb

This is shocking: "One of Thailand’s top art galleries removed, at China's request, materials about Beijing's treatment of ethnic minorities and Hong Kong from an exhibit on authoritarian governments" www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Such a fun article: How young Chinese flock to DeepSeek for fortune-telling (tldl: AI is the one who always listens and answers when nobody has the time + Deepseek has great Chinese language/literary skills that make you want to talk with it): theinitium.com/article/2025...

Why is the Chinese govt spying on a Buddhist-inspired org in Australia? Cuz it's outside its control. Chinese govt only allow 5 official religions & tightly control practices such as religious leader appointments. Anything else is "evil cult" + persecuted abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Another day, another film axed by Hong Kong censors: hongkongfp.com/2025/08/07/s...

Macao govt should free ex-lawmaker, activist Au Kam San, who was arrested on national security charges. This is the 1st the draconian Law on Safeguarding National Security has been invoked in the former Portuguese colony. www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...

What is truly difficult working on China is this: What decision-makers and the public see/hear/understand about China is already manipulated by the Chinese govt: www.bbc.com/news/article... and www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

From the UK to Canada to Australia, police tells activists critical of the Chinese govt to censor themselves to avoid being harassed by 🇨🇳. Instead of blaming the victims, how about taking concrete actions to combat 🇨🇳's transnational repression? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

‼️ Macau authorities invoke the city's draconian National Security Law for the first time & arrest the city's longest standing democratic legislator: www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/... Authorities should drop all charges against Au Kam San, who faces up to 10 years in prison for "foreign collusion".

Chinese tech firm Tencent seeks removal of anti-censorship archive FreeWeChat, watchdog says hongkongfp.com/2025/07/17/c... “This escalation comes amid a tightening censorship regime inside China and dwindling international support for digital rights work due to foreign aid cuts.”

Breaking: Hong Kong national security authorities issues a fresh round of baseless bounties against 15 people for organizing and participating in the exile Hong Kong Parliament hk.news.yahoo.com/%E5%9C%8B%E5...

Catholic priest officially recognized by the Chinese government, Ma Xianshi, is reportedly detained in Zhejiang Province, where there is a persecuted underground bishop. Case to watch as Pope Leo ponders over the 2018 Vatican-China agreement www.asianews.it/news-en/Fr-M...

Chilling: Chinese state-owned press lambasted Hong Kong's independent bookstores for organizing a book fair, calling it "soft resistance", thus re-defining previously non-controversial/non-political behavior as politically subversive, as it drives deepening repression hongkongfp.com/2025/07/21/c...

"U.S. citizen who works for Commerce Dept. ensnared in Chinese exit ban" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... and the exit ban against Wells Fargo exec raise fresh alarms about safety of foreigners (esp Chinese descent) in China www.scmp.com/news/china/d...

Public health crisis -> cover-up -> public outrage -> jailing a few scapegoats -> rinse and repeat from Covid-19 to lead poisoning of kids. People in China deserve real accountability--i.e. democracy, a free press. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/w...

The 1-night stand of 2 young people--Chinese woman + Ukranian man--riveted China, reflecting what I wrote earlier: Chinese women's "bodies and loyalty are not theirs alone, but openly judged as reflections on the honour of the entire Han Chinese race." abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Wow: U.S.-Based Wells Fargo Banker Blocked From Leaving China www.wsj.com/world/china/... "The use of such measures on foreign executives has intensified concerns about business travel to mainland China in recent years."

Shocking that the head of a major democracy can't even muster the courage to defend press freedoms --a fundamental human rights-- or mention that the Chinese Constitution guarantees the rights to free expression: www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

Surprise surprise: "Views of China and its leader...have improved slightly among many people around the world over the past year while the opposite is true for the United States and...Trump, according to survey results provided by the Pew Research Center." www.newsweek.com/china-us-xi-...

"On Tuesday, the US president said he would be fighting China 'in a very friendly fashion.' In meetings with his staff, Trump is often the least hawkish voice in the room, some of the people said." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Congrats to Prof Yves Moreau on his dodged quest to press academic press to stop publishing ethically questionable research by Chinese police researchers which maybe part of coercive DNA collection drives in the Uyghur and Tibetan regions www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Chinese govt’s persecuting & silencing lawyers who challenge official abuses a decade after the “709 crackdown”, @hrw said. The CCP has also strengthened ideological controls over the broader legal profession to compel it to serve its agenda. www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...

His Holiness the Dalai Lama said, given his followers' wishes, he has decided that the traditions of the Dalai Lama's reincarnation will continue, and that "no one should interfere." www.theguardian.com/world/video/...

On July 6, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will turn 90 🎂. Govts should press the Chinese govt to: 1) Stop repressing Tibetans 2) Free the Panchen Lama (the 6-year-old was kidnapped w/ family 30 years ago) 3) Allow journalists, rights researchers unfettered access to Tibet.

5 years ago today, Beijing imposed the National Security Law on Hong Kong that has "extinguished" the city's "political and civil vibrancy". "Increasingly, only Chinese Communist Party loyalists...can occupy key positions in society." Read @hrw.org's report www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...

人權觀察 @mayawang.bsky.social： #社會民主連線 解散，說明中國政府強行實施港區國安法五年以來，中國政府對香港的鎮壓是如何快速及猛烈。 社會民主連線為香港民主派最大政黨之一，也是其中最強悍、最草根的一股力量。社民連成員多年來竭力爭取民主，不畏日益加劇的騷擾與嚴刑峻罰。可想而知，他們必然是遭遇到中國政府更進一步的威脅，才會決定偃旗息鼓。

As democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani made history in NYC today, in #HongKong, the League of Social Democrats are forced to shut down under the Chinese government's growing repression and harassment: hongkongfp.com/2025/06/25/b...

On June 24, 2021, Hong Kong’s popular newspaper Apple Daily shut down after police raids, arrests, and asset freezes. The Chinese government should stop its growing repression in Hong Kong and release all those held simply for reporting the news.

Wow these are harsh sentences for practicing religion even by China's standards.

Interesting: Pope Leo's Vatican appointed underground Chinese bishop as auxiliary, and Beijing agrees: www.pillarcatholic.com/p/leo-names-... but Vatican hasn't yet confirmed the two appointments Beijing made during the mourning period for Pope Francis (see: www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...).

Chinese authorities have sentenced two senior Tibetan monastic leaders to 3- and 4-year prison terms for their roles in rare 2024 public protests against a planned Chinese hydropower dam project, according to Radio Free Asia. www.rfa.org/english/tibe...

After decades of 1st hand experience with the Chinese Party-state's lies, subterfuge and repression in Hong Kong, the UK govt somehow still considers closer trade ties with the Chinese Party-state a good idea: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...