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GENEVA – UN experts* today expressed alarm that lawyer Kevin Yam (Yam Kin Fung) was disbarred and financially penalised on 16 July 2025 in direct connection with public statements he made about the in...

Film maker and postgrad researcher Roshaan Khattak was targeted after researching enforced disappearances in Balochistan

An Australian man arrested in Thailand on a defamation charge he says originated with Malaysia's government claims he is a victim of transnational repression, in which Southeast Asia countries coopera...

Jerome Cohen kept a liberal vision of China alive

Amid Beijing’s crackdown on cross-border syndicates, notorious gang found to have engaged in fraud, drug trafficking and prostitution.

Tang Renjian, China's former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, was sentenced to death with reprieve for bribery at a court in Jilin province on Sunday, according to state-run news agency Xinhua.

China will no longer ask for or avail itself of benefits and flexibilities for developing countries as a part of World Trade Organization negotiations, Beijing announced on Tuesday.

An expert on China—and a sometime critic—Cohen defended companies and dissidents.

Chinese authorities should immediately and unconditionally release Zhang Yadi, an advocate for Tibetan rights who had been an international student in France.

1/6 Reuters: "China’s central bank head pledged on Monday to use a range of monetary policy tools to ensure ample liquidity, try to drive down funding costs and support economic recovery." www.reuters.com...

Chinese authorities should immediately and unconditionally release Zhang Yadi, an advocate for Tibetan rights who had been an international student in France.

Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan spent four years in prison for breaking some of the earliest COVID-19 stories from Wuhan, the Chinese city where the virus took hold. Now, she is about to be tried in the...

Chinese officials on Friday turned diplomats and journalists away from a Shanghai court where rights groups said the trial of a prominent citizen journalist was taking place.

The Hong Kong government’s proposed bill to recognise same-sex partnerships has failed to pass in the Legislative Council (LegCo), with just 14 out of 86 lawmakers voting in favour. A total o…

Geneva, 8 September 2025: At the opening of the 60th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, High Commissioner Volker Türk issued a stark warning: human rights, the foundation of peace, ju...

The UPR is one of the few processes where every government, including our own, has an opportunity to both report on its progress and hold others to account.

Families of detainees in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region have told Amnesty International of their continued suffering, three years after a major UN report said China was responsible for “serious human rights violations”. On 31 August 2022, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a historic assessment concluding that serious […]

Both foreign executives and political dissidents have been affected