The year was marked by harsh crackdowns on human rights defenders and people perceived to be dissidents, as well as the systematic repression of ethnic minorities. The beginning of the year saw the start of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, which killed more than 4,600 people in China. People...

13 April marks the first anniversary of the detention of human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng and his wife, activist Xu Yan.

On 13 April 2023, prominent human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng and his wife Xu Yan were taken into police custody while en route to the delegation of the European Union to China in Beijing. In October, Yu Wensheng and Xu Yan were indicted on charges of “picking quarrels” and an additional charge of...

A Chinese transgender activist due to be released tomorrow after serving a prison sentence in Hong Kong will be at grave risk of persecution if she is deported to mainland China. She must instead be allowed to remain in Hong Kong or travel to another destination, Amnesty International urged...

Rinchen Tsultrim has been released after completing his prison sentence. The outcome is considered partially successful because we sought his immediate release but he had to serve his full sentence. Our objective to highlight human rights violations in Tibet through his case was achieved.

Human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng is a victim of enforced disappearance. There is no information about his whereabouts since he was taken away from his home in Yulin City, northwest China, in August 2017. A former prisoner of conscience who was previously tortured in detention, he has been prevented...

Responding to the conviction and sentencing to three years and eight months in jail of Chinese workers’ rights and women’s rights activist Li Qiaochu for “inciting subversion of state power”, Amnesty International’s China director Sarah Brooks said: “The unjust conviction of Li Qiaochu is the...

Responding to today’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) focusing on China’s human rights record, Amnesty International’s China director Sarah Brooks said: “Today’s rights review should have been a real reckoning for the Chinese authorities: a rare space for other governments to amplify the grave...

As Chinese worker’s rights and women’s rights activist Li Qiaochu is expected to face trial today on the charge of “inciting subversion of state power”, the Head of Amnesty International’s China Team, Sarah Brooks, said: “In reconvening Li Qiaochu’s trial, Chinese authorities are trying to put a...

Nathan The White Paper Movement (and the Sitong Bridge protest a month earlier) completely changed my life. Since October 2022, my fellow activists and I have put up solidarity posters, organized rallies and candlelight vigils – I even started an independent magazine. I did many things that I...

Lu Siwei, a renowned Chinese human rights lawyer, is being held in the Xindu Detention Centre in Sichuan province, southwestern China, after he was forcibly returned to China from Laos. There is no information about the charges against him. Over the years, Lu has been intimidated and harassed by...

Responding to reports of a six-and-a-half-year sentence handed down today to Chinese human rights lawyer Li Yuhan on charges of “picking quarrels and provoking troubles” and fraud, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for China Sarah Brooks said:  “Li Yuhan is one of many human...

Amnesty International joined 23 other organizations or lawyers and legal scholars in calling for the release of Chinese human rights lawyer Li Yuhan on the sixth anniversary of her detention.