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The Rights Practice builds the capacity of those working to make human rights a reality. We promote an end to torture and abolition of the death penalty. Website: www.rights-practice.org

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The Rights Practice @rightspractice.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
@hrichina.bsky.social @amnesty.org @fidh-official.bsky.social @freedomhouse.bsky.social @hongkongwatch.bsky.social @fortifyrights.bsky.social @frontlinedefenders.bsky.social @indexoncensorship.org @chrdnet.bsky.social @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social @rsf.org @uyghurcongress.bsky.social
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The Rights Practice @rightspractice.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
On 15 September 2026, The Rights Practice, along with 59 other organisations, called for Sophia Huang Xueqin's immediate release and the guarantee that, once released, she can carry out her journalism and human rights work without restrictions. www.rights-practice.org/news/joint-s...
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Joint statement: Authorities must release Sophia Huang Xueqin
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...
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CHRD人权捍卫者网络 @chrdnet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🔴 CHRD's new study on torture of #PrisonersOfConscience in 🇨🇳 reveals that authorities persist in using #torture, typically to extract confessions, and fail to investigate allegations of ill-treatment. 👉 www.nchrd.org/2026/09/chin...
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The Rights Practice @rightspractice.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Today, The Rights Practice, along with five other organisations, express our grave concern about the conviction of human rights barrister Chow Hang-tung, alongside Lee Cheuk-yan, a former legislator, on charges of incitement to subversion in Hong Kong. www.rights-practice.org/news/joint-s...
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Joint statement: Conviction of Chow Hang-tung
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...
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The Rights Practice @rightspractice.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
@lawyersforlawyers.bsky.social @asianlawyersn.bsky.social @ibahri.bsky.social
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The Rights Practice @rightspractice.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The Rights Practice, along with 6 other orgs, express grave concern about the arrest of Chinese human rights lawyer Wu Shaoping by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the serious risks surrounding any potential deportation to China. www.rights-practice.org/news/joint-s...
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Joint statement: ICE arrests Chinese lawyer Wu Shaoping
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...
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The Rights Practice @rightspractice.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Read our new report 'Mapping Deprivation of Liberty in #China' - Eleven years after the #709Crackdown, lawyers still face harassment and arbitrary detention including in 'residential surveillance at a designated location' (RSDL). www.rights-practice.org/report-beyon...
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Report: Beyond Prison. Mapping Deprivation of Liberty in China
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...
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The Rights Practice @rightspractice.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
2/ On 9 July 2015, and days that followed, hundreds of lawyers and legal activists were questioned and detained. The wives of detained lawyers were not activists, despite their husbands' legal activism. They took on new role to call for release of their husbands and found novel ways to protest.
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The Rights Practice @rightspractice.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
1/ Today, on the 11th anniversary of #709Crackdown we re-share TRP Director's reflections on the resistance of the ‘709’ wives to obtain justice for their husbands. www.rights-practice.org/blog/li-wenz...
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Li Wenzu and the Resistance of the ‘709’ Wives
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 ...
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The Rights Practice @rightspractice.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
2/ We see little evidence that Xi Jinping views the death penalty as a distinct policy instrument. Instead, we see a consolidation in the way capital punishment is being applied as a useful (and somewhat flexible) tool for Xi’s authoritarian model of crime control.
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The Rights Practice @rightspractice.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
1/ To coincide with the World Congress Against the Death Penalty, we published a new briefing paper: "Death Penalty Under Xi Jinping" to cast some light on the application of the death penalty under Xi Jinping, party secretary and president, in China. www.rights-practice.org/briefing-pap...
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Briefing Paper: Death Penalty Under Xi Jinping
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.
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The Rights Practice @rightspractice.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
2/ We underline risks of arbitrary detention and ill treatment where legislation is vague and incomplete, courts lack independence (and play a minor role), and interests of CCP take precedence. For anyone caught up in the system, understanding basis of detention is important for seeking remedy.
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The Rights Practice @rightspractice.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
1/ Today, to mark International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, we publish an important new report: "Beyond Prison. Mapping Deprivation of Liberty in China". We map the multiple ways in which the Chinese state may deprive someone of their liberty. www.rights-practice.org/report-beyon...
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Report: Beyond Prison. Mapping Deprivation of Liberty in China
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...
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The Rights Practice @rightspractice.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This year, for the first time in over 30 years, members of the Tiananmen Mothers group, relatives of victims of the June Fourth crackdown, were banned from visiting their graves in Wanan Cemetery. www.rfa.org/english/chin...
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Exclusive: Tiananmen victims’ families banned from visiting graves on anniversary
89-year-old mother of student who died in the 1989 massacre said police have been watching her for days.
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The Rights Practice @rightspractice.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Today, on the 37th anniversary of the #JuneFourth Massacre, we honour the victims, survivors, and families who continue to seek truth and justice. The Tiananmen Mothers reaffirm their 3 longstanding demands: truth, accountability, and compensation. hrichina.substack.com/p/commemoratio
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The Rights Practice @rightspractice.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
3/ "...Despite the repression, there remains, today, a small, yet active and independent civil society in China. They help keep alive that extraordinary, exhilarant flourishing of Chinese society that we witnessed across China in the months leading up to June Fourth."
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The Rights Practice @rightspractice.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
2/ "...Periods of relative openness have been followed by crackdowns as the authorities attempted to rein in groups that took advantage of small freedoms. Falun gong practitioners, human rights lawyers, house church Christians and labour activists have all been targeted..."
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The Rights Practice @rightspractice.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
1/ On the eve of the 37th anniversary of June Fourth, we re-share reflections from TRP Director @nicolamacbean.bsky.social "...the trauma of Tiananmen has cast its long shadow over the Party State’s relationship to its citizens..." www.rights-practice.org/blog/remembe...
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Remembering June Fourth
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 ...
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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 03/06/2026
A Hong Kong performance artist was surrounded by a group of plainclothes police after he showed up in Causeway Bay holding red string ahead of Thursday's Tiananmen crackdown anniversary. In full: buff.ly/2gD0xxi Photos: Kyle Lam/HKFP.
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The Rights Practice @rightspractice.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
3/ Chow Hang-tung, along with Lee Cheuk-yan and Albert Ho are awaiting verdicts in their trial for "inciting subversion of state power", in which closing arguments were delivered in May 2026.
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The Rights Practice @rightspractice.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
2/ ...This resilience is our most reliable safeguard against the perpetuation of dictatorship and the cult of power. This year marks the 37th anniversary of the June 4th massacre, and I will continue to hunger strike for 37 hours while imprisoned." www.asianews.it/news-en/On-h...
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On hunger strike in prison, Chow Hang-tung:
In a message written from prison, the lawyer on trial alongside Lee Cheuk-yan and Albert Ho for the 4 June vigils in Victoria Park speaks of the importance of resilience in remembering the 1989 massac
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The Rights Practice @rightspractice.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
1/ Hong Kong barrister and activist Chow Hang-tung published a message before 37th anniversary of #JuneFourth. She said that "June Fourth is a matter of principle. By standing firm on it, we can build the resilience much needed to resist the corrosive effects of power...
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Human Rights in China @hrichina.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The Tiananmen Mothers have released a statement on the 37th anniversary of the June Fourth Tiananmen Massacre, commemorating the victims and urging the Chinese government to "accept their responsibility to history and resolve this injustice." Read here: open.substack.com/pub/hrichina...
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Commemoration of the 37th Anniversary of the 1989 June Fourth Massacre
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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Nicola Macbean @nicolamacbean.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
A successful prosecution under National Security Act. Should dent PRC’s sense of impunity for transnational repression. UK immigration officer among two men guilty of working for Chinese intelligence www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UK immigration officer among two men guilty of working for Chinese intelligence
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CHRD人权捍卫者网络 @chrdnet.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Police in Kunming detained three church members— #YuShaolin, #LiQin, and #LuoPing — during an April 12 gathering. Authorities have yet to inform their families of any reason or provide formal notice, in violation of 🇨🇳 law. via wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/05/21.h...
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Asian Lawyers Network (ALN) @asianlawyersn.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
So happy that human rights lawyer #YuWensheng has been released and safely arrived at his home in Beijing. x.com/xuyan709/sta...
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The Rights Practice @rightspractice.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
@peninternational.bsky.social @lawyersforlawyers.bsky.social @amnesty.org @chrdnet.bsky.social @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social @hrichina.bsky.social @freedomhouse.bsky.social @hrw.org @article19.bsky.social
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PEN International @peninternational.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
#China: PEN International joins 25 organisations, including @amnesty.org and @frontlinedefenders.bsky.social, in calling for the immediate release of human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng at the end of his sentence. Read the joint statement ⬇️ www.pen-international.org/news/china-a...
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China: Authorities must release arbitrarily detained human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng at the end of his sentence and ensure his full freedom   — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide
 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
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The Rights Practice @rightspractice.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng is expected to be released on 13 April, after completing a three-year sentence. We, along with 25 other organisations, urge Chinese authorities to ensure that Yu Wensheng is immediately released after serving his sentence. tinyurl.com/2dc3tx2z
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Joint statement: Authorities must release lawyer Yu Wensheng at end of his sentence
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...
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Mary Lawlor @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
#China: Very disturbed by reports that woman human rights defender Xu Dongqing continues to be detained despite a terminal diagnosis for a malignant brain tumour. This follows months of alleged mistreatment & deprivation of adequate medical care. [1/2]
The Chinese flag flying in the wind
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The Rights Practice @rightspractice.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
3/ The Working Group renders the following opinion: The deprivation of liberty of Mr. Xie Yang, being in contravention of articles 2, 3, 7, 9, 10, 11, 19, 20 and 21 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is arbitrary and falls within categories I, II, III and V.
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The Rights Practice @rightspractice.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
"The Working Group is concerned that this might indicate a widespread or systemic practice of arbitrary detention in the country. The Working Group underlines that States have the obligation not to engage in acts that could constitute crimes against humanity & to prevent them"
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The Rights Practice @rightspractice.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
1/ UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention - Opinion Concerning Chinese human rights lawyer Xie Yang: "In recent years, the Working Group has found China in violation of its international human rights obligations in numerous cases." www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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CHRD人权捍卫者网络 @chrdnet.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
BREAKING❗ According to his family, Changsha Intermediate Court today sentenced lawyer #XieYang to 5 years for “inciting subversion” after secret trials and arbitrary detention extensions. He has been detained since Jan 2022. 👉 tenchu.org/pocd/public/... #FreeXieYang
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Nicola Macbean @nicolamacbean.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Quite extraordinary. Police in China seem to be extending the scope of transnational repression to labour activism overseas.
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The Rights Practice @rightspractice.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The Rights Practice, and 25 other civil society organisations, call on UN Human Rights Chief to use his 27 February address to Human Rights Council to detail his office’s efforts to investigate alleged Chinese government crimes against humanity. tinyurl.com/muabfeyu @chrdnet.bsky.social
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Joint Statement: UN Human Rights Chief should address Beijing’s deepening repression
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...
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CHRD人权捍卫者网络 @chrdnet.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
🔴 At #HRC61, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights #VolkerTürk should address #Beijing ’s deepening repression. 👉 www.nchrd.org/2026/02/unit...
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Mary Lawlor @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Appalled by the conviction of the father of Hong Kong WHRD Anna Kwok, in what appears to be clear retaliation for her human rights work carried out in exile. #China's relentless pursuit of HRDs at home & abroad must be taken into account by states considering ever closer ties with it.
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Hong Kong activist's father convicted under national security over insurance policy
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...
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Elaine Pearson @elainepearson.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
.@hrw's response to the conviction of Anna Kwok's father under Hong Kong's draconian national security law for "attempting to deal with the funds of an absconder" - an alarming act of collective punishment. www.reuters.com/world/china/...
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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
"EU deplores the heavy prison sentence of 20 years imposed on British citizen and media entrepreneur Jimmy Lai by the Hong Kong High Court. The EU reiterates its call for the immediate and unconditional release of Jimmy Lai, also in consideration of his advanced age and health condition"
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Nicola Macbean @nicolamacbean.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Vindictive though sadly not unexpected.
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The Rights Practice @rightspractice.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
"I remain deeply concerned for Mr Lai’s health, and I again call on Hong Kong authorities to end his appalling ordeal and release him on humanitarian grounds, so that he may be reunited with his family."
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The Rights Practice @rightspractice.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
UK Foreign Secretary: British National Jimmy Lai was today sentenced to 20 years in prison in Hong Kong for exercising his right to freedom of expression, following a politically motivated prosecution. www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Foreign Secretary responds to Jimmy Lai sentencing
Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper responds to the sentencing of Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong today.
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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 09/02/2026
1/ Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai is set to be sentenced over national security charges: Live: buff.ly/0Qqsnrh Matthias Kauffman, Deputy Head of the European Union Office to Hong Kong and Macao, arrived with other consulate officials at the courthouse at around 8.40am to witness proceedings.
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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 09/02/2026
Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been jailed for 20 years following his foreign collusion and sedition conviction. In full: buff.ly/6FeYWmm
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Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to [years] in jail following his conviction of foreign collusion and sedition charges.
Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been jailed for XX years following his foreign collusion and sedition conviction.
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Index on Censorship @indexoncensorship.org · 04/02/2026
#China: Two journalists - Liu Hu and Wu Yingjiao - have been detained because of their reporting, which looked into corruption by a senior official. This is the kind of public-interest reporting that journalists are supposed to do. They should be released immediately.
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CHRD人权捍卫者网络 @chrdnet.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
❗Lawyer #ZhangWenpeng faces trial Feb. 2 for picking quarrels. Detained since Sept. 2024, he allegedly endured torture. A court in Sanya will also try #XuZongpin on the same charge. 👉 www.nchrd.org/2025/10/aler...
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 22/01/2026
UN experts warn forced labour targeting Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz and #Tibetan communities persists, driven by state “labour transfer” schemes. Coercion may amount to crimes against humanity. Tibet: estimates near 650,000 labour transfers in 2024. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel... #supplychain
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UN experts alarmed by reports of forced labour of Uyghur, Tibetan and other minorities across China
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...
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The Rights Practice @rightspractice.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
UN experts alarmed by reports of forced labour of Uyghur, Tibetan and other minorities across China - "In many cases, the coercive elements are so severe that they may amount to forcible transfer and/or enslavement as a crime against humanity." tinyurl.com/4rj58fwk
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UN experts alarmed by reports of forced labour of Uyghur, Tibetan and other minorities across China
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...
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The Rights Practice @rightspractice.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Start the new year informed, subscribe to our periodic China Rights Digest for trusted news and updates on human rights in China and Hong Kong. Click the "newsletter" button at top of our website landing page to subscribe. New edition coming soon! www.rights-practice.org
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