Genf/PekingChina torpediert nach einem Bericht der Menschenrechtsorganisation Human Rights Watch die Arbeit von Uno-Experten. „China engagiert sich in den Vereinten Nationen zu Menschenrechten, aber oft mit dem Ziel, Kritik aggressiv zu verhindern und den Zugang zu Aktivisten, die sich mit China befassen, zu behindern“, sagte der Exekutivdirektor der Organisation, Kenneth Roth, am Dienstag in Genf.
Einheimische, die an einem friedlichen Gebetsritual teilnahmen, wurden willkürlich und grundlos von chinesischen Sicherheitsbeamten angegriffen.
Dabei wurden einige verletzt und mußten hospitalisiert werden.
CHINA ⋅ Zum ersten Mal ist ein taiwanesischer Menschenrechtsaktivist in China vor Gericht gestellt worden. Zum Prozessbeginn bekannte sich Lee Ming-che als schuldig der "Untergrabung der Staatsgewalt".
Human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng in in police custody in Beijing weeks after his family reported him missing from his cave dwelling in a remote village in the northern Chinese province of Shaanxi, his elder brother said on Thursday.
World Watch Monitor (08.09.2017) – http://bit.ly/2wRyGN5 – Unofficial estimates say that there are close to 100 million Christians in China, more than are members of its Communist Party, due to hold its 19th five-yearly National Congress in mid-October.
World Watch Monitor (08.09.2017) – http://bit.ly/2gW0d9C – China has passed a new set of rules regulating religious affairs, a year after the proposed amendments were released to the public for the first time.
(Beijing—Sept. 7, 2017) Beijing authorities confirmed today that a renowned Christian human rights lawyer and two-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee who vanished from his home nearly a month ago was kidnapped and is currently incarcerated somewhere in the capital city.
(Beijing—Sept. 7, 2017) China’s State Council released a new set of revisions to China’s Regulations on Religious Affairs today, tightening the government chokehold on religious freedom.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s cabinet on Thursday passed new rules to regulate religion to bolster national security, fight extremism and restrict faith practiced outside organizations approved by the state.
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have been holding an activist for more than a month since he took part in a seashore memorial for late Nobel peace laureate and political prisoner Liu Xiaobo, his wife told RFA.
