On 15 September 2026, The Rights Practice signed a joint statement, along with 60 other organisations, urging Chinese authorities to immediately release Huang Xueqin and allow her to resume her journa...

On 24 August 2026, The Rights Practice signed a joint statement, along with five other organisations, to express our grave concern regarding the conviction of human rights barrister Chow Hang-tung, al...

On 29 July 2026, The Rights Practice signed a joint statement, along with six other organisations, expressing grave concern about the arrest of Chinese human rights lawyer Wu Shaoping by the US Immigr...

In June 2026, The Rights Practice published a new report "Beyond Prison. Mapping Deprivation of Liberty in China". The report maps the multiple ways in which the Chinese state may deprive someone of t...

Li Wenzu has used novel acts of protest, along with other ‘709’ wives, in her efforts to see her husband, human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang, to demand that he is given access to a lawyer and to seek ...

In June 2026, The Rights Practice published a briefing paper to cast some light on the application of the death penalty under Xi Jinping, party secretary and president.

In June 2026, The Rights Practice published a new report "Beyond Prison. Mapping Deprivation of Liberty in China". The report maps the multiple ways in which the Chinese state may deprive someone of t...

As we remember the thirtieth anniversary of Tiananmen, let us also challenge ourselves and our politicians to find answers to the pressing questions posed by the large-scale, extrajudicial detentions ...

On the 37th anniversary of the June Fourth Massacre, the Tiananmen Mothers have issued a commemorative statement, calling for justice on behalf of the victims and families of those harmed.

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 9 April 2026: PEN International joins 25 organisations in calling for the release of Yu Wensheng at the end of his sentence. A human rights lawyer and  honorary member of ICPC , Yu is currently serving a three-year

On 9 April 2026, The Rights Practice, and 25 other organisations, signed a joint statement to urge Chinese authorities to ensure that human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng is immediately released after serv...

On 24 February 2026, The Rights Practice, along with 25 other civil society organisations, called on UN Human Rights Chief to address the HRC to detail his office’s efforts to investigate alleged Chin...

A Hong Kong court found the father of a wanted activist guilty of a national security violation on Wednesday after he tried to end her insurance policy and withdraw the funds, drawing international cr...

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper responds to the sentencing of Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong today.

Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been jailed for XX years following his foreign collusion and sedition conviction.

GENEVA – UN experts* today expressed deep concern regarding persistent allegations of forced labour affecting Uyghur, Kazakh and Kyrgyz minority groups as well as Tibetans within the Xinjiang Uyghur A...

GENEVA – UN experts* today expressed deep concern regarding persistent allegations of forced labour affecting Uyghur, Kazakh and Kyrgyz minority groups as well as Tibetans within the Xinjiang Uyghur A...

On 15 December 2025, The Rights Practice signed a joint letter, along with 32 other organisations, to Rt Hon Keir Starmer MP, Prime Minister of the UK, urging him to secure British citizen Jimmy Lai's...

Today, as the world observes International Human Rights Day, we reflect on the ongoing challenges and the progress made since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. Human r...

On 30 October 2025, The Rights Practice and six other organisations issued a joint statement expressing grave concerns about reports that lawyer Zhang Wenpeng has been tortured while in arbitrary dete...

The Law Society of England and Wales, Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada, Lawyers for Lawyers, International Bar Association Human Rights Institute, Asian Lawyers Network, The Rights Practice, and the…

Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.

A coalition of 90 press freedom and human rights NGOs, led by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), has called for the release of Swedish publisher Gui Minhai, founder of the Hong Kong-based publishing hou...

October 15, 2025: Joint Statement from Civil Society Groups on the Chinese Government’s Arbitrary Detention of Swedish publisher Gui MinhaiWe, the undersigned press freedom, journalists’, human rights...

On 15 October 2025, The Rights Practice, and 89 other NGOs, issued a joint statement to strongly condemn the Chinese government's ongoing arbitrary detention of Swedish publisher and writer Gui Minhai...