🇨🇳 China is harrassing prominent rights lawyers, pressuring recently evicted Wang Quanzhang and his family, slapping a travel ban on Li Heping and his family and denying Xie Yang a phone call with his sick father.
We urge the @UN_HRC to speak out.https://t.co/tLEuJ0yAnH
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) June 19, 2023
“In 2013, I was set to testify at the U.N. Human Rights Council. China requested the names of dissidents scheduled to speak. Despite this being forbidden by its own rules, the U.N. Human Rights Office shared our information with Chinese authorities. So they came after my family.” pic.twitter.com/vL3sbobK89
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 18, 2023
🇨🇳 China raided the offices of business consulting firm Capvision as part of an ongoing crackdown on foreign businesses that provide sensitive economic data.
We urge the @UN_HRC to speak out.https://t.co/bexQeTfhbu
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) May 15, 2023
🇨🇳 China placed an exit ban on outspoken university scholar Guo Yuhua, barring her from entering Hong Kong. She signed a letter in October 2020 calling for the release of detained publisher Geng Xiaonan.
🇨🇳 China sits on the U.N. Human Rights Council.https://t.co/IPgspuyDbP
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) May 15, 2023
GOOD: Canada expelled a Chinese diplomat after he tried to intimidate a Canadian lawmaker critical of China’s treatment of its Uyghur Muslim minority. https://t.co/sYt6dlLJBJ
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) May 9, 2023
🇨🇳 China forces prisoners to work 13-hour shifts with almost no days off and very little pay — roughly $0.48 per day. At Chishan Prison, inmates construct Milwaukee Tool gloves, which are sold in the U.S.
🇨🇳 China sits on the U.N. Human Rights Council.https://t.co/DW7MXtx6ku
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) May 9, 2023
Sun Qian has been trapped behind bars in China for over five years. She's been tortured, coerced to sign false confessions and forced to renounce her Canadian citizenship. All because of her beliefs.@Chinamission2UN, when will you free Sun Qian?https://t.co/DlAS3XDgpF pic.twitter.com/u2SQa8bGvf
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) May 9, 2023
🇨🇳 China is ramping up its campaign against foreign journalists with a special big-data-powered alert system that can single out reporters who travel to the Xinjiang region.
We urge the @UN_HRC to speak out.https://t.co/VkOhe22SWO
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) May 4, 2023
🇨🇳 China stepped up its use of exit bans against human rights defenders and their families and expanded legislation authorizing their use to anyone under investigation or anyone connected to an investigation.
We urge the @UN_HRC to speak out.https://t.co/LoIHzX7UYv
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) May 2, 2023
🇨🇳 China slashed the democratically-elected seats to only 20% for local Hong Kong elections. Only 88 seats in November’s race will be elected by the public — down from 452.
We urge the @UN_HRC to speak out.https://t.co/8LGTcBrP2H
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) May 2, 2023
Meet Dr. Wang Bingzhang. He was the first Chinese citizen to earn a Ph. D. in North America, at McGill in Montreal. Then he founded the first pro-democracy magazine in Chinese. On a visit to Vietnam in 2002, Beijing agents kidnapped him. He's been locked up in China for 20 years. pic.twitter.com/xRXDliYhd1
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) May 2, 2023
🇨🇳China banned Muslims younger than 60 in the Xinjiang region from praying at mosques and even in their own homes during the religious holiday of Eid al-Fitr.
We urge the @UN_HRC to speak out.https://t.co/q00PbfVZhn
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) May 1, 2023