June 8, 2017 - Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang region are doubling down on a bid to prevent Muslim Uyghurs from fasting and praying during Islam’s holy month of Ramadan by embedding Chinese officials in their homes, according to official sources.
On 30 May 2017, the Associated Press reported that Hua Haifeng, an investigator for China Labor Watch, had been arrested on a charge of illegal surveillance.
George Orwell, who understood the close connection between control of messaging and the shaping of history, wrote in his classic work 1984 that "who controls the past controls the future."
Nach mehreren Selbstverbrennungsprotesten in den westchinesischen Provinzen Qinghai, Sichuan und Gansu gehen die Behörden nun verschärft gegen die Internetkommunikation vor, wobei die Polizei regelmäßig Einträge in sozialen Medien nach Anzeichen für Nachrichten-Übermittlung außerhalb der unmittelbaren Umgebung durchforstet.
Access to Justice (司法公正)
深圳大抓捕：王军妻预产期提前胎儿或出血 国保再逼返鄂 (Shenzhen Crackdown: Wang Jun’s wife forced back to Hubei by national security authorities despite advancement of delivery date and potential danger to her fetus)
It was like a scene from the Japanese invasion of China during World War II.
Authorities in the central Chinese province of Hunan have ratcheted up the charges against human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong, meaning he could face an even longer jail term.
(Guiyang, Guizhou—June 9, 2017) Splintered into small congregations meeting secretively in the homes of fellow church attendees, the members of a house church in China’s southern Guizhou province penned a letter describing how government persecution obliterated their finances, imprisoned and tortured their leaders, and fractured their thriving church body.
FIDH-HRIC Statement
Human Rights Council 35th Session
Item 3: Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty
Delivered by Sharon Hom, June 8, 2017
