Australian citizen Dr Yang Hengjun has been sentenced to death by a Chinese court. Email the Chinese Embassy and call for his death sentence to be quashed and for his immediate release. Dr Yang Hengjun has been detained for five years. To this day, the Chinese authorities have failed to substantiate their allegations that Hengjun […]
BREAKING: Dr Yang Hengjun was sentenced to death by a Chinese court. Call for his death sentence to be quashed and for his immediate release. Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun has been detained by the Chinese authorities since January 2019. The government has accused him of espionage. Yang, a prominent writer and blogger, has amassed a […]
As Chinese worker’s rights and women’s rights activist Li Qiaochu is expected to face trial today on the charge of “inciting subversion of state power”, the Head of Amnesty International’s China Team, Sarah Brooks, said: “In reconvening Li Qiaochu’s trial, Chinese authorities are trying to put a veneer of legitimacy over years of harassment and […]
On 24 November 2022, at least 10 people died in an apartment fire in the city of Urumqi, northwest China. They were reportedly prevented from escaping due to strict covid-19 controls. All those who died were Uyghurs, an ethnic group that has endured a campaign of systematic human rights violations by the Chinese government. The […]
We are Kubilay Kaan, Kris Lee, Ramila Chanisheff, Tsewang Thupten, and Xiaogang Zhang — youth activists, former refugees and leaders of our communities in Australia who still must use pseudonyms to protect our loved ones living under the Chinese Communist Party. Together, we represent the Uyghur, Tibetan, Hong Konger and Chinese communities who suffer horrendous […]
The Chinese government has never acknowledged the true events surrounding the Tiananmen crackdown— there is no official death toll.
Responding to widespread protests unprecedented in recent years, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director Hana Young said: “The tragedy of the Urumqi fire has inspired remarkable bravery across China. Peaceful protesters are holding blank pieces of paper, chanting slogans, and engaging in many forms of creative dissent. It is virtually impossible for people in China to […]
Ahead of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CCP), where President Xi Jinping is expected to be confirmed as CCP General Secretary for a third term, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director Hana Young said: “Confirmation of Xi Jinping’s third term will be an ominous moment not only for the millions of […]
The UN Human Rights Council must end its years of inaction and establish an independent international mechanism to investigate crimes under international law in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Amnesty International said today. The Council session, which began on 12 September, is the first since the UN High Commissioner’s recent report on government atrocities in […]
This 46-page document lays bare the scale and severity of the human rights violations taking place in Xinjiang.