Swedish foreign minister, dismissing insinuation of breach of law, accuses Beijing of ignoring ‘basic international rules’
Judicial authorities in China have stripped several human rights lawyers of their licenses to practice law in recent months, detaining one of them just days ago, in clear retaliation against the lawyers for defending their clients’ legal and human rights.
| On the day that Donald Trump was inaugurated president almost a year ago, a Chinese military leader named Jin Yinan gave a speech to top Communist Party officials in China.
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Authorities in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region have jailed the four wealthiest ethnic Uyghurs in Kashgar (in Chinese, Kashi) city for acts of “religious extremism,” according to an official, amid a crackdown he said is unlikely to end any time soon.
BEIJING (AP) — Zhang Haitao was a rare voice in China, a member of the ethnic Han majority who for years had criticized the government on social media for its treatment of the minority Muslim Uighurs.
Party and government officials must promote traditional Chinese culture, not attend banquets and ceremonies.
Initiatives for China (IFC a.k.a Citizen Power for China) applauds the Trump Administration's first round of sanctions imposed on 52 individual human rights abusers and corrupt officials under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, a 2016 law that allows the President to deny U.S. visas and freeze U.S.-based assets of any individual human rights abusers and corrupt officials in the world.
An Iranian asylum seeker who converted to Christianity in Switzerland can be sent back to Iran, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled.
