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...

 Antonio Guterres should publicly and unequivocally condemn the Chinese authorities’ abusive policies in Xinjiang and call for an immediate closure of camps containing an estimated one million Turkic Muslims, a coalition of five human rights groups, including Amnesty International, said in a letter...

Gao Zhisheng is a prominent human rights lawyer in China. Over the years, he has been persecuted, kidnapped and sentenced to prison. In August 2017, he went missing again and has not been seen since. In 2004, I noticed an open letter to the National People’s Congress calling attention to the issue...

Responding to the statement by a senior Google executive that the company has “terminated” plans to launch Project Dragonfly, its censored search engine for China, Joe Westby, researcher on technology and human rights at Amnesty Tech, said: “This is the first time that Google have so clearly...

It is one of the most iconic moments in the fight for freedom in recent history.  A lone man, holding a shopping bag in each hand, stands defiantly in front of a row of mighty military tanks close to Beijing’s monumental Tiananmen Square. Then, with cameras capturing the moment for broadcast around...

The Chinese authorities must end a wave of persecution targeting those seeking to commemorate the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, Amnesty International said ahead of the 30th anniversary of the bloodshed.  Over recent weeks, police have detained, placed under house arrest or threatened...

Transgender people in China are performing highly dangerous surgery on themselves and buying unsafe hormone treatments on the black market because it is almost impossible for them to access the health care they urgently need, Amnesty International said in a new report. “I need my parents’ consent...

The United Nations Human Rights Council should adopt a resolution establishing an international fact-finding mission to Xinjiang, the region of China where up to one million Turkic Muslims are being arbitrarily detained, a group of nongovernmental organizations said in a joint statement to UN...

Responding to the five-year prison sentence imposed by a Chinese court against Liu Feiyue, founder of human rights website “Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch, for “inciting subversion of state power”, Patrick Poon, China Researcher at Amnesty International, commented: “Today’s deplorable verdict...

Responding to the 4 and a half years prison sentence handed down by a Chinese court to human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang, who was found guilty of “subverting state power”, Doriane Lau, China Researcher at Amnesty International, commented: “Today’s verdict is a gross injustice. It’s outrageous that...

Responding to the Chinese authorities’ confirmation that Australian-Chinese writer Yang Hengjun has been detained on suspicion of “endangering national security”, Joshua Rosenzweig, East Asia Research Director at Amnesty International commented: “The Chinese authorities have serious questions to...

Responding to a death sentence given by a Chinese court to Canadian citizen Robert Schellenberg for drug smuggling, William Nee, China researcher at Amnesty International, commented:  “The death sentence given to Robert Schellenberg does not deliver justice. We urge the Chinese authorities to...

Following the sentencing after conviction of pastor Wang Yi of the Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu, China, Patrick Poon, China researcher at Amnesty International said: “Today’s verdict makes a mockery of China’s supposed religious freedoms. Wang Yi was merely practicing his religion...