China: Regime continues to criminalise activists, increase digital restrictions and deploy transnational repression against protesters Published at 22.09.2025 Country China Category Latest Developments Tags: excessive force HRD detained HRD prosecuted indigenous groups minority groups negative court ruling protest disruption restrictive law surveillance transnational repression women Read more
China: Regime continues to jail activists and target critical artists, film makers and musicians Published at 29.05.2025 Country China Category Latest Developments Tags: protest disruption women minority groups HRD detained negative court ruling excessive force labour rights protest restrictive law journalist detained surveillance HRD prosecuted environmental rights Read more
China: Human rights defenders criminalised as well as face harassment, surveillance and transnational repression Published at 27.11.2024 Country China Category Latest Developments Tags: protest disruption women minority groups transnational repression harassment HRD detained labour rights protest censorship journalist detained surveillance HRD prosecuted Read more
China: Authorities jail activists, stifle memory of the Tiananmen massacre and censor online critics Published at 03.07.2024 Country China Category Latest Developments Tags: women minority groups harassment surveillance HRD detained internet restriction restrictive law censorship protestor(s) detained HRD prosecuted Read more
China: Activists and journalists face arrests and convictions despite UN human rights review Published at 01.03.2024 Country China Category Latest Developments Tags: protest disruption women minority groups harassment HRD detained negative court ruling enforced disappearance torture/ill-treatment restrictive law censorship protestor(s) detained HRD prosecuted Read more
China: Government elected to UN Human Rights Council as it prosecutes and jails human rights defenders and journalists Published at 30.10.2023 Country China Category Latest Developments Tags: women minority groups HRD detained torture/ill-treatment restrictive law censorship HRD prosecuted Read more
China: Human rights defenders and journalists jailed and censorship persists as President Xi starts third term in office Published at 08.08.2023 Country China Category Latest Developments Tags: LGBTI women intimidation harassment HRD detained negative court ruling enforced disappearance torture/ill-treatment restrictive law censorship journalist detained HRD prosecuted Read more
China: Human rights defenders jailed, protesters detained and activists harassed around the National People's Congress Published at 13.04.2023 Country China Category Latest Developments Tags: women minority groups intimidation surveillance travel ban HRD detained negative court ruling protest enforced disappearance restrictive law bureaucratic restriction censorship protestor(s) detained HRD prosecuted land rights Read more
Widespread protests in China met with repression including restrictions, harassment and censorship Published at 05.12.2022 Country China Category Latest Developments Tags: protest disruption prevention of protest harassment censorship journalist detained protestor(s) detained excessive force Read more
Amid protests, censorship and persecution of Uyghurs and activists in China, Xi Jinping seeks third term Published at 01.09.2022 Country China Category Latest Developments Tags: youth protest disruption intimidation harassment HRD detained excessive force criminal defamation censorship surveillance women minority groups negative court ruling protest restrictive law journalist detained HRD prosecuted Read more
Activists and journalists in China face persecution during and after Winter Olympics Published at 11.04.2022 Country China Category Latest Developments Tags: women HRD detained criminal defamation enforced disappearance restrictive law censorship journalist detained surveillance HRD prosecuted Read more
Human rights defenders and journalists arrested, prosecuted and tortured in China Published at 30.11.2021 Country China Category Latest Developments Tags: LGBTI women CSO closure HRD detained torture/ill-treatment restrictive law journalist detained HRD prosecuted environmental rights Read more
China tries to deflect global criticism as persecution of activists, Uyghurs and censorship persists Published at 11.08.2021 Country China Category Latest Developments Tags: LGBTI minority groups HRD detained torture/ill-treatment restrictive law censorship journalist detained surveillance HRD prosecuted Read more
Systematic persecution of activists, journalists and critics in mainland China and Hong Kong Published at 19.05.2021 Country China Category Latest Developments Tags: minority groups intimidation harassment travel ban HRD detained HRD killing negative court ruling labour rights enforced disappearance torture/ill-treatment restrictive law censorship journalist detained HRD prosecuted Read more
China continues Hong Kong crackdown, persecution of activists and journalists for their reporting Published at 21.01.2021 Country China Category Latest Developments Tags: youth minority groups surveillance HRD detained negative court ruling enforced disappearance restrictive law journalist detained protestor(s) detained HRD prosecuted Read more
China deploys security law against Hong Kong activists as persecution of critics and Uighurs persist Published at 06.10.2020 Country China Category Latest Developments Tags: youth office raid minority groups harassment HRD detained protest prevention of protest torture/ill-treatment restrictive law censorship journalist detained protestor(s) detained HRD prosecuted Read more
China silences reporting on COVID-19, expands surveillance and arrests Hong Kong protest leaders Published at 20.05.2020 Country China Category Latest Developments Tags: minority groups release of HRDs harassment surveillance HRD detained travel ban negative court ruling censorship journalist detained protestor(s) detained HRD prosecuted Read more
NGOs highlight suppression around virus outbreak in China while persecution of activists continue Published at 07.02.2020 Country China Category Latest Developments Tags: youth protest disruption minority groups harassment travel ban HRD detained excessive force protest torture/ill-treatment restrictive law censorship protestor(s) detained HRD threatened HRD prosecuted Read more
Hong Kong protesters face arrests, excessive force and torture while journalists ill-treated Published at 05.11.2019 Country China Category Latest Developments Tags: protest disruption attack on HRD intimidation attack on journalist excessive force protest prevention of protest torture/ill-treatment violent protest restrictive law censorship journalist detained protestor(s) detained non state actors Read more
Prominent Hong Kong activists arrested after weeks of police violence at protests Published at 30.08.2019 Country China Category Latest Developments Tags: protest disruption women harassment surveillance attack on journalist HRD detained protest prevention of protest violent protest time,place restrictions censorship protestor(s) detained Read more
Hong Kong protests met with excessive force as activists suppressed around Tiananmen anniversary Published at 11.07.2019 Country China Category Latest Developments Tags: intimidation harassment travel ban HRD detained excessive force enforced disappearance torture/ill-treatment censorship women internet restriction sexual assault restrictive law protestor(s) detained HRD prosecuted environmental rights land rights Read more
