The Hotan Prefecture Department of Education Department issued a directive in June requiring full instruction in Mandarin beginning in preschool, and banning the use of Uyghur in all educational activities and management, threatening punishment if the directive is not followed.
Hong Kong — A pro-democracy activist in Hong Kong said on Friday that Chinese agents drove staples into his legs after he asked the soccer star Lionel Messi to send a message of support for a jailed Chinese dissident.
Authorities revoked the bail of a pastor in China’s coastal Zhejiang and issued him a subpoena on Aug. 2.
Citing contrived “potential dangers,” authorities in China’s eastern Anhui province convened a rally on Aug. 4 in order to discuss the “renovation” of Christian house churches.
Chinese authorities drove staples into the limbs of a pro-democracy activist in Hong Kong today, forming cross shapes on his legs.
The Chinese authorities must end their persecution of prominent activist Wu Gan and immediately and unconditionally release him, Amnesty International said, ahead of his expected trial on Monday.
Wu Gan’s trial is a cruel farce. He is merely being punished for refusing to stop his innovative and legitimate campaigns for justice in China.
Patrick Poon, China Researcher at Amnesty International
Dissident rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who remains under house arrest since his release from prison in August 2014, is unlikely to regain any measure of freedom before the ruling Chinese Communist Party's 19th congress later this year, his friends told RFA.
IGFM verurteilt Chinas indirektes Eingreifen auf fremdem Territorium aufs Schärfste
Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang region are turning mosques used by mostly-Muslim ethnic Uyghurs for religious and community purposes into centers disseminating political propaganda, according to local sources.
A regime that denies proper medical treatment for a Nobel Laureate dying of cancer, detains his widow, disqualifies democratically-elected legislators for quoting Mahatma Gandhi, regards an international treaty it has signed as having "no practical significance",
