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Laura Harth

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China in the World Director @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social | External Relations Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC)

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Laura Harth @lauraharth.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Admitting the obvious: “Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the European Union’s top diplomat on Wednesday that Beijing does not want to see a Russian loss in Ukraine.” www.scmp.com/news/china/d...
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Exclusive | China tells EU it does not want to see Russia lose its war in Ukraine: sources
Wang Yi speaks of concern that US could shift whole focus in China’s direction in talks with top EU diplomat Beijing.
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RSF @rsf.org · 23/06/2025
#HongKong: 4 years after #AppleDaily was shut down, its spirit lives on. RSF and exiled staff have published a special edition honouring media in Hong Kong that continue to resist repression. 7 staff remain jailed and face life imprisonment, including founder #JimmyLai. 🔗 rsf.org/en/four-year...
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RSF @rsf.org · 23/06/2025
RSF is alarmed by reports that the parents of a UK-based journalist working for Iran International have been detained in Tehran and coerced into urging their daughter to resign. This marks a further escalation in #Iran's efforts to silence Persian-language media overseas. rsf.org/en/rsf-conde...
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RSF condemns rise in attacks on UK-based Iranian journalists and their families in Iran
Persian-language broadcasters based in London have reported an alarming escalation in threats against their journalists, including intimidation of their families in Iran. Reporters Without Borders (RS...
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RSF @rsf.org · 24/06/2025
What better sign of Apple Daily's enduring power than to see our revival edition being read in the #UK houses of parliament today, by MPs and peers of all political parties. The spirit of Apple Daily lives on! #HongKong #AppleDailyLivesOn #FreeJimmyLai
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Laura Harth @lauraharth.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
From Canada’s CSIS 2024 public report: “With one of the world’s largest & most active security intelligence systems, PRC poses the greatest counter-intelligence threat. […] PRC Intelligence Services actively and clandestinely target democratic states around the world.” www.canada.ca/en/security-...
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Intelligence operations - Canada.ca
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Laura Harth @lauraharth.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
‼️G7 Leaders commit to counter Transnational Repression, “an aggressive form of foreign interference that undermines national security, state sovereignty, the safety and human rights of victims, and principles of international law.” Full Statement: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...
G7 Leaders’ Statement on Transnational Repression (TNR) - Canada, June 17, 2025
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Safeguard Defenders (保护卫士) @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
📍8964: New Safeguard Defenders report coming June 4. 📍8964: 保护卫士 新的报告将于6月4日发布。 (Media can request an embargoed copy at - 媒体可通过以下邮箱申请获取禁运版报告: media [at] safeguarddefenders [dot] com)
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ICIJ @icij.org · 25/04/2025
COMING SOON: #ChinaTargets. ICIJ’s latest investigation uncovers the sprawling scope and terrifying tactics of Beijing’s campaign to target dissident members of its diaspora. Stay tuned! Sign up to get the stories delivered to your inbox: bit.ly/3SCsH8c
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Austin Ramzy @austinramzy.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
China is still developing its capacity to invade Taiwan, but analysts say it is now able to carry out a blockade or quarantine. @joyuwang.bsky.social and I take a look at how that might unfold Gift link: www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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China Is Ready to Blockade Taiwan. Here’s How.
China’s military, in increasingly complex exercises, have encircled Taiwan and simulated blockades.
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China Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net · 24/03/2025
Quote of the Day: “Food Is Unsafe, Students' Lives Are Unsafe, Our Data Is Unsafe, but MoFA Says China Is One of the 'Safest' Countries in the World!"
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Quote of the Day: “Food Is Unsafe, Students' Lives Are Unsafe, Our Data Is Unsafe, but MoFA Says China Is One of the 'Safest' Countries in the World!"
This year, the theme of World Consumer Rights Day on March 15 was “a just transition to sustainable lifestyles.” As it has every year since 1991, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV marked the occasion wit...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/03/2025
Ukraine war live: Russia launches deadly drone attack on Kyiv ahead of ceasefire talks in Saudi Arabia
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Ukraine war live: Russia launches deadly drone attack on Kyiv ahead of ceasefire talks in Saudi Arabia
US and Ukrainian officials to meet in Saudi Arabia on Sunday, ahead of US-Russia talks on Monday Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the war in Ukraine. At least three people were killed, including a five-year-old child, after Russia launched an overnight drone attack on Kyiv, according to Ukrainian officials. Continue reading...
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Nathan Attrill @nathanattrill.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
🇵🇼 China is using transnational criminal organisations to advance its political objectives in Palau and weaken Taiwan’s diplomatic ties with the Pacific island nation. www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/6049334
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US think tank says China using criminal organizations to sabotage Taiwan-Palau ties | Taiwan News | Mar. 2, 2025 10:49
Pacific Economics urges Palau to bolster economic resilience and deepen democratic cooperation | Mar. 2, 2025 10:49
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Greg @jamyang.net · 16/02/2025
Surveillance and missing children: a rare glimpse inside forgotten Tibet A documentary shows the depths Beijing will plunge to subsume the people whose land it annexed 75 years ago. One of its producers reveals what the team found. (ITV1, 10:20pm tonight) www.thetimes.com/world/asia/a...
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Surveillance and missing children: a rare glimpse inside forgotten Tibet
A documentary shows the depths Beijing will plunge to subsume the people whose land it annexed 75 years ago. One of its producers reveals what the team found
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Greg @jamyang.net · 16/02/2025
A new report by @weberv.bsky.social reviews 4 key data-centric technologies whose development could fortify Beijing’s tech-enabled authoritarian governance model and offers 7 critical steps democracies & civil society must take to ensure a more democratic digital future. www.ned.org/data-centric...
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Data-Centric Authoritarianism: How China’s Development of Frontier Technologies Could Globalize Repression - NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY
A new report authored by Valentin Weber review four key data-centric technologies whose development could fortify Beijing’s tech-enabled authoritarian governance model and offers seven critical steps ...
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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Italy's data protection authority said on Thursday it had blocked Chinese artificial intelligence model DeepSeek over a lack of information on its use of personal data. www.reuters.com/technology/a...
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Italy's regulator blocks Chinese AI app DeepSeek on data protection
Italy's data protection authority said on Thursday it had blocked Chinese artificial intelligence model DeepSeek over a lack of information on its use of personal data.
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Laura Harth @lauraharth.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Posing as @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social, for the first time a Chinese social media operation that aims to whip up political anger in the West has explicitly called for the overthrow of a foreign government (in Spain), @graphika.com reports. www.reuters.com/world/chines...
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Chinese online influence operation called for overthrow of Spain's government, Graphika report says
A Chinese social media operation that aims to whip up political anger in the West has called for the overthrow of a foreign government when impersonating protesters criticising flood relief efforts in Spain, online analysis outfit Graphika said.
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Nathan Attrill @nathanattrill.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Taiwan has drawn up a blacklist of 52 Chinese-owned ships that use flags of convenience, which it will track and proactively inspect in an effort to regulate part of a rapidly growing “shadow fleet” that is causing global security concerns. www.ft.com/content/bb6b...
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Taiwan blacklists Chinese-owned ‘shadow fleet’ ships
Taipei’s move reflects concern Beijing could use vessels that evade international oversight against it
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Andreas Fulda @amfchina.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
For the Chinese Communist Party sovereignty is not limited to safeguarding territory. It is also about protecting the regime at home and abroad (“active defense”, 积极防御). This is why it struggles against democracies using the united front, economic coercion and propaganda.
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Phelim Kine @phelimkine.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
In China's military..."When one leader is purged, another is on deck. Politicized corruption investigations and their imposition of costs are fundamentally a speed-bump rather than a showstopper" digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cmsi-maritim...
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China Maritime Report No. 44: Dirty But Preparing to Fight: VADM Li Pengcheng's Downfall Amid Increasing PLAN Readiness
Main Findings Although corruption runs deep in the PLA Navy (PLAN) and across China’s armed forces, disciplinary-related removals appear not to have a major impact on naval capabilities or operation...
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Nathan Attrill @nathanattrill.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
An Australian businessman has accused the local embassy in China of ignoring his pleas for help as he languished in filthy, overcrowded Beijing jails for four years. www.skynews.com.au/insights-and...
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Australian jailed in Beijing for four years shares his harrowing ordeal
It was just after Christmas in 2019,  and Australian Matthew Radalj was 34 and running a streetwear business in Beijing when he went to get his phone repaired at a popular electronics market.
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Laura Harth @lauraharth.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Black jails and angry wails: anger is growing over forms of detention linked to torture and deaths that have become increasingly common under Xi Jinping. It often involves holding people incommunicado for weeks on end in brutal conditions without charge. www.economist.com/china/2025/0...
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An outrage that even China’s supine media has called out
Anger is growing over a form of detention linked to torture and deaths
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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
China crisis looms as Europe’s gravy train stalls: ‘nobody is making money’ A long read from me on Germany, trillion-dollar deficits, and the China shock 2.0 Feat. @sandertordoir.bsky.social @cfr.org @adamtooze.bsky.social, @ceias-eu.bsky.social, @niclaskv.bsky.social www.scmp.com/news/china/d...
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Europe’s ‘China crisis’ looms as continent’s export gravy train stalls
As the EU’s auto industry reels from a slowing Chinese economy and cutthroat competition, analysts caution the worst is yet to come.
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William Yang @williamyang120.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
A Chinese national was arrested Thursday on charges of acting as an illegal agent for #Beijing when serving as the campaign manager for an unnamed politician elected to a city council in Southern California two years ago. apnews.com/article/chin...
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Chinese national charged with acting as Beijing's agent in local California election
A Chinese national has been charged with acting as an illegal agent for Beijing when serving as the campaign manager for an unnamed local California politician.
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Laura Harth @lauraharth.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
New York Resident Pleads Guilty to Operating Secret Police Station of the Chinese Government in Lower Manhattan Defendant Admitted That He Conspired to Act as an Illegal Agent of the Chinese Government www.justice.gov/opa/pr/new-y...
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New York Resident Pleads Guilty to Operating Secret Police Station of the Chinese Government in Lower Manhattan
Chen Jinping, 60, of New York, New York, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to act as an illegal agent of the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), in connection with opening and operati...
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Laura Harth @lauraharth.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
“A guilty plea is expected today in the case of a secret Chinese police station operating in lower Manhattan. Prosecutors said the secret police station was set up by PRC counterintelligence operatives to harass and intimidate dissidents living in US.” abcnews.go.com/US/guilty-pl...
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Guilty plea expected in secret Chinese police station case
Lu Jianwang and Chen Jinping were accused of working on behalf of China's Ministry of Public Security in violation of the Espionage Act.
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William Yang @williamyang120.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
My latest: Australia signed two multi-million dollar deals with Nauru and Papua New Guinea last week that analysts say will help Canberra counter #China’s growing influence in the Pacific. www.voanews.com/amp/australi...
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Australia's deals with Pacific nations aim to curb China's influence
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CHRD人权捍卫者网络 @chrdnet.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
In #China, this lawyer is detained for advocating his client's legal rights. The independence of lawyers under assault. Lawyer Zhang Wenpeng's lawyer reported that Mr. Zhang has been shackled and wearing heavy leg chains since Dec 4, which broke the skin and the wounds have festered. #Torture
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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
China is recruiting embassy staff with a focus on EVs Hundreds of candidates sat an exam in Beijing as part of recruitment process for new science & technology counsellors Fluent in English, overseas educated, they were tested on understanding of CCP ideology and EV sector sc.mp/53oo4?utm_so...
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Exclusive | China is recruiting embassy staff with a focus on electric vehicles, source says
Hundreds of candidates said to have sat exam testing their knowledge of Communist Party ideology and the EV sector.
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Nathan Attrill @nathanattrill.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
The FBI has provided classified, “defensive” briefings to lawmakers targeted by the Chinese Communist Party with false stories about taking bribes from Taiwan, two U.S. officials told NBC News. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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FBI warns some lawmakers that China aims to create fake stories about them to erode support for Taiwan
The FBI has provided classified, “defensive” briefings to lawmakers targeted by the Chinese Communist Party with false stories about taking bribes from Taiwan, two U.S. officials told NBC News.
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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Breaking: European Commission launches a formal investigation into TikTok for its alleged role in violating the integrity of the recent Romanian election.
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Safeguard Defenders (保护卫士) @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Ever wonder where all those high officials in China keep disappearing to? In 2023 alone, a whopping 26,000 individuals were placed into the CCP’s notorious Liuzhi system of enforced disappearances, arbitrary detention and torture. Read more👇 safeguarddefenders.com/en/blog/chin...
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China’s Disappearing Officials: Common “Party Discipline” Practice
Ever wonder where all those high officials in China keep disappearing to?Here’s the answer… and the increasingly frequent headlines on yet another Party boss gone missing don’t even begin to cut it.
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Laura Harth @lauraharth.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
🔥 White House announcement on set-up of interagency effort to monitor and address effects of any PRC efforts to censor or intimidate any US person, including a US company that conducts business in the PRC, exercising its freedom of speech in the US. www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...
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Memorandum on the Establishment of the China Censorship Monitor and Action Group | The White House
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES SUBJECT:       Establishment of the China Censorship Monitor and Action GroupBy the
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Laura Harth @lauraharth.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
When Evan Gershkovich was detained by Russia, he never stopped reporting. Neither did his colleagues. “Along the way, two Journal colleagues were openly followed through the streets of Vienna and Washington in acts of surveillance apparently designed to intimidate...” www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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Tracking Putin’s Most Feared Secret Agency—From Inside a Russian Prison and Beyond
The spy unit that arrested a Wall Street Journal reporter is leading the biggest campaign of internal repression since the Stalin era.
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Laura Harth @lauraharth.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
‼️ “To avoid violating European regulations 🇮🇹 company Danieli circumvents embargoes through a Chinese subsidiary. Meanwhile, business is on the rise at its Russian subsidiary: in 2023, the balance of its financial flows increased by a factor of 35.” theins.ru/en/corruptio...
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All is fair in steel and war: Italian equipment used in making military armor continues to be supplied to Russia
Russian metallurgists, who supply their materials to manufacturers of weapons and armored vehicles, are critically dependent on foreign equipment. As The Insider discovered, products of the Italian co...
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Laura Harth @lauraharth.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
👏👏👏 Paraguay on Thursday kicked out a Chinese envoy for interfering in its domestic affairs and urging the South American nation to break off ties and long friendship with Taiwan. The Chinese diplomat was given 24 hours to leave the country. www.cnn.com/2024/12/05/a...
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Paraguay kicks out Chinese envoy for Taiwan comments | CNN
Paraguay on Thursday kicked out a Chinese envoy for allegedly interfering in its domestic affairs and urging the South American nation to break off ties and long friendship with Taiwan. The Chinese di...
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Laura Harth @lauraharth.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
“Italian” tomato purees sold by several UK supermarkets appear to contain tomatoes grown and picked in China using forced labour, the BBC has found. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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‘Italian’ purees likely to contain Chinese forced-labour tomatoes
Some products described as “Italian” appear to contain Chinese tomatoes, BBC investigation suggests.
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Laura Harth @lauraharth.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
China’s Local Governments Hold Back Wages in Desperate Scrape for Cash. Beijing’s recent attempt to address the trillions in hidden debt held by local governments only scratches the surface. www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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China’s Local Governments Hold Back Wages in Desperate Scrape for Cash
Beijing’s recent attempt to address the trillions in hidden debt held by local governments only scratches the surface.
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Laura Harth @lauraharth.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Fabulous 🙄 Imagine if the Council had followed through on the numerous appeals by the European Parliament to suspend all extradition treaties with the PRC and Hong Kong. Alas… political inertia at its best: instead of 12 extradition treaties less, we now get one more.
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Safeguard Defenders (保护卫士) @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
维权人士 #许志永 在狱中 #绝食抗议,情况危急。他的未婚妻 #李翘楚 一直是他最坚定的支持者,但身在 #中国 的她无法为他发声。 但我们可以。 safeguarddefenders.com/zh-hans/node...
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谁是许志永?
(图片来源:律师王瑛) 近日,一封公开信在网上出现,呼吁国际社会紧急关注中国著名人权活动家、法学学者许志永的案件。许志永于今年十月开始绝食抗议,以抗议狱中非人道待遇以及监狱当局阻止他与未婚妻李翘楚的通讯。 许志永目前在山东省鲁南监狱服刑。他因被控“颠覆国家政权罪”而被判处了异常严厉的14年徒刑。支持者们对他在狱中的健康状况和待遇深感担忧。 他的伴侣李翘楚一直是他最坚定的支持者之一。李翘楚本人也于今...
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Safeguard Defenders (保护卫士) @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
On #hungerstrike in prison, civil rights activist #XuZhiyong's condition is urgent. His fiancee #LiQiaochu is his biggest advocate but living inside #China she does not have the freedom to speak out. But we do. safeguarddefenders.com/en/blog/who-...
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Who is Xu Zhiyong?
(photo credit: lawyer Wang Ying ) Last week an open letter circulated on the Internet asking for urgent international attention on the case of Xu Zhiyong, one of China’s most renowned civil rights act...
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 21/11/2024
🎙 After analyzing years of satellite data, Bloomberg reporters traveled to waters east of Malaysia to find out how billions of dollars of sanctioned Iranian oil is making its way to China. Join them for a Live Q&A 8 am ET/9 pm HKT to hear what they saw ⤵
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Live Q&A: How China Secretly Buys Oil Worth Billions From Iran
Bloomberg reporters take your questions about their investigation into one of the world’s largest muster points for the dark fleet, a flotilla of aging vessels that helps move millions of barrels of s...
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 20/11/2024
The US Embassy in Kyiv shut down today following reports of a possible major air strike.
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US Embassy in Kyiv closes over anticipated ‘significant’ air attack
Announcement comes after Washington lifted restrictions on use of American long-range missiles on Russian territory.
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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 20/11/2024
Elsa Wu, the mother of jailed pro-democracy figure Hendrick Lui, was arrested after holding a banner outside a Hong Kong court. In full: buff.ly/4hTRmiP
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Hong Kong 47: Mother of jailed democrat arrested over banner outside court
Elsa Wu, the mother of jailed pro-democracy figure Hendrick Lui, was arrested after holding a banner outside a Hong Kong court.
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CHRD人权捍卫者网络 @chrdnet.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
In a letter to the #ChinaGov, 5 #UN Special Procedures urged #Beijing to disclose lawyer #XieYang ’s condition during his prolonged pretrial detention and to protect his right to report mistreatment. @williamyang120.bsky.social @emilyzfeng.bsky.social 🔗 www.nchrd.org/wp-content/u...
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Badiucao巴丢草 @badiucao.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Rule of Law in HK 香港法治 Hong Kong jails 45 pro-democracy campaigners for subversion A Hong Kong court has sentenced dozens of pro-democracy leaders to years in jail for subversion, following a controversial national security trial.
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Nathan Attrill @nathanattrill.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order directing the Texas Department of Public Safety to target and arrest people trying to execute influence operations on behalf of the Chinese government to return dissidents to China. www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/g...
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Gov. Greg Abbott takes action against Chinese government operatives in Texas with new executive order
The Chinese government set up "police service stations" across the world, according to Abbott's order, with one rumored to be in Houston.
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Nathan Attrill @nathanattrill.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
CrowdStrike has identified a brand-new China-linked cyber-espionage operation that's infiltrating telecommunications networks, according to a report first shared with Axios. www.axios.com/2024/11/19/c...
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Exclusive: CrowdStrike finds that yet another China-linked hacking group is targeting telecom networks
The discovery comes as the U.S. responds to a sprawling China hack of officials' phones.
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William Yang @williamyang120.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Investigators of two severed data cables in the Baltic Sea are looking at the movements of a Chinese bulk carrier, the second such probe in recent months amid rising jitters in Europe over potential acts of sabotage. www.ft.com/content/3835...
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Chinese vessel spotted where Baltic Sea cables were severed
Swedish investigators are looking into Yi Peng 3 bulk carrier that was travelling from Russia to Egypt
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Laura Harth @lauraharth.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
This whole trial is all kinds of ludicrous. Not that it will matter to Hong Kong’s kangaroo courts. Not only do the alleged “crimes” not constitute a crime in any event, they’re actually completely made up.
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