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CHRD人权捍卫者 @chrdnet.bsky.social · 1d

人权律师 #卢思位近日接受法广采访表示，8月刑满出狱后，检查发现肺结节问题恶化，医生说已属肺癌的初步。
www.rfi.fr/cn/%E4%B8%AD...

因医保被断，卢思位选择观察半年后再决定；他多次向政保要求自由出入境，惟当局不肯放行；
#妻子张春晓呼吁当局让卢思位保外就医，在家人陪同和照顾下接受治疗。

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Sophie Richardson @sophiedrich.bsky.social · 3d

I started to read this piece on #Tibet #YarlungTsangpo Dam expecting to learn more about #China govt approach to hydro, but there is a great deal more here on #politics #power #security, too.

madeinchinajournal.com/2025/09/04/t...

The Technopolitics of China’s Yarlung Tsangpo Dam Project and the Paradox of Hydropower | Made in China Journal

Three years after announcing their intent to construct a mega-dam along the Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) River as part of the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan, Chinese officials gave their approval to proce...

madeinchinajournal.com

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Sophie Richardson @sophiedrich.bsky.social · 3d

From @Stanford @SCCEI summation of a book I'm keen to read: "The [#China] #Gaokao, in effect, is not just an academic test — it is a gate into an entirely different social contract."
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

The Highest Exam — Harvard University Press

Combining personal narratives with decades of research, a vivid account of how the gaokao—China’s high-stakes college admissions test—shapes that society and influences education debates in the United...

www.hup.harvard.edu

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Sense Hofstede @sensehofstede.nl · 6d

Chinese newsletters: Xi Jinping wants a spot in your inbox – The Economist: ‘The Economist has identified over a dozen writers on Substack who are employed by China’s state media.’

Xi Jinping wants a spot in your inbox

Policymakers hope to shape the thinking of Western elites in new ways

www.economist.com

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Sophie Richardson @sophiedrich.bsky.social · 9d

Who gets to decide what art you can see outside China? In some cases, as in #Thailand of late, apparently #China #XiJinping govt calls the shots.
Curator Flees Bangkok After China Deems His Art Show Too Provocative www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/w...

A Curator Flees Bangkok After China Deems His Art Show Too Provocative

www.nytimes.com

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Sophie Richardson @sophiedrich.bsky.social · 9d

#China govt efforts to legislate "ethnic unity" doesn't protect existing #humanrights. Rather, it sets up even more #arbitrarydetentions on baseless charges of "splittism," "separatism"; runs contrary to intl law obligations, including #CERD. @chrdnet.bsky.social

npcobserver.com/legislation/...

Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress - NPC Observer

Texts, legislative records, translations (if any), and related coverage of China's Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress. - Law of the People’s Republic of China on Promoting Ethnic Unity a

npcobserver.com

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Sophie Richardson @sophiedrich.bsky.social · 9d

Staggering figures--imagine if #China govt respected (as it's bound by law to do) key #laborrights, including the right to form independent unions. People like Chen Guojiang pay a high price for trying: www.nchrd.org/2021/03/chin...

www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

China’s 200m gig workers are a warning for the world

What a giant precarious workforce reveals about the future of jobs

www.economist.com

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Milk Tea Alliance Calendar @mtacalendar.bsky.social · 10d

New week is here #MilkTeaAlliance & here is the upcoming events🧵

We saw Hong Kongers keep their 2014 promise in 2019, we also saw another 2019 "㷛底見" we believe it will also be kept.

Friends in Myanmar say ကမ္ဘာမကြေဘူး
We dream similar dreams of a free future.
Never give up, persist

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Don't give up
Let's meet at the “bottom of the pot” (nickname of the LegCo demonstration area)
without our masks
Date: unknown
Time: unknown
Details awaiting letter of no objection
But, to live we must believe

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Sophie Richardson @sophiedrich.bsky.social · 10d

Good to see these concerns about environmental damage done by fireworks in #Tibet; better still to also see it about mega-dams like #YarlungTsangpo, mines, roads, and other infrastructure projects causing serious harms.

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Stephen McDonell @stephenmcdonell.bsky.social · 14d

Such sad news to hear of Jerome Cohen’s death. No foreigner knew the law in #China like he did. Apart from having a brilliant intellect, and an adventurous spirit - which led him to practice law inside China then go on to defend dissidents here etc - he was a funny, giving person who will be missed.

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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 16d

A toxic mining spill devastated Zambian farmers’ livelihoods, releasing millions of gallons of waste into the environment. The Chinese company responsible told shareholders the spill did not have “a significant impact.”

Chinese Mining Firm Downplays Toxic Waste Spill as Residents Reel From Impacts - Inside Climate News

China Nonferrous Mining told investors its waste pit collapse did not have a “significant impact” on Zambia’s environment or residents. A new lawsuit, however, chronicles illnesses, lost livelihoods a...

insideclimatenews.org

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Sophie Richardson @sophiedrich.bsky.social · 16d

"Although many #Hongkongers have found greater freedom in the #UK, the struggle to preserve their mother tongue continues. 'Either staying in #HongKong or...in the UK, they face the marginalisation of their culture,' Wong says. 'That really hits me personally'."

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Ten Years: has the hit film’s dystopian vision of Hong Kong in 2025 become a reality?

In 2015, a scrappy group of film-makers tapped into the ‘anxiety of what the city would become’ under Beijing’s increasing influence. Now screening at the Hong Kong film festival UK, it resonates in n...

www.theguardian.com

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CHRD人权捍卫者 @chrdnet.bsky.social · 19d

"... #Beijing ’s intolerance of free speech has increasingly global implications," said @sophiedrich.bsky.social commenting on Chinese journalist #ZhangZhan reportedly put on trial today for “picking quarrels.”
👉 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Zhang Zhan: who is the Chinese citizen journalist facing a second trial?

Former lawyer has been accused of ‘provoking trouble”, a catch-all term used to target government critics

www.theguardian.com

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国际人权服务社(ISHR) @chinese.ishr.ch · 20d

中国人权捍卫者 @chrdnet.bsky.social 联席执行主任 @sophiedrich.bsky.social 表示：

➡️任意拘留的系统性还表现在系统性地剥夺公平审判权，将和平言论定为犯罪，并歧视少数群体
➡️最常用的罪名是寻衅滋事和危害国家安全
➡️任意拘留甚至通过“不释放的释放”延续到获释之后
➡️敦促中国根据国际标准修改立法，全面落实联合国建议

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Milk Tea Alliance Calendar @mtacalendar.bsky.social · 22d

New event
📆18th Sept
🕓4pm WIB

@globalvoices.org host Panel "Bridging Asia’s climate divide: cross border reporting on China's BRI" w/ @brianhioe.bsky.social & more

Live on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/@Globalvoice...

Details:
globalvoices.org/2025/09/16/g...

GV Insight: Bridging Asia’s climate divide

YouTube on September 18, 2025, 4 pm WIB / 9 am UTC / 5 pm CST.

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CHRD人权捍卫者 @chrdnet.bsky.social · 22d

#邹巍、#昝爱宗海祭晓波案

据民生观察报道，
9月16日，昝爱宗案开庭审理；
9月19日，邹巍案将开庭审理。
msguancha.com/plus/view.ph...

2024年7月13日，#刘晓波逝世7周年，浙江公民浙江公民 #邹巍、 #昝爱宗、 #庄道鹤、 #毛庆祥、 #汪雪娥（吕耿松夫人）、 #程云惠（王东海遗孀）、 #严忠良等七人在钱塘江入海口举行海祭活动，次日凌晨警方抓捕六人，四人被训诫、做笔录后获释，20日昝爱宗、邹巍被刑拘。

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CHRD人权捍卫者 @chrdnet.bsky.social · 21d

人权捍卫者 #徐秦：

➡️约见高邮市信访局局长
➡️申请公开《人力资源社会保障部文件》人社部发[2024]74号
➡️要求提供相关法律依据
➡️退休金受法律保护
➡️社保局明知当事人被捕，为掠夺个人财产找借口

综上，要求社保局立即停止侵权，并返还非法扣除当事人的所有的养老金资金，恢复应有的养老金待遇。

9月15日，高邮社保局人员约谈徐秦，告知以后将以每月扣发形式扣回她从进看守所到出狱共四年养老金，如徐秦不同意，他们将起诉。
wqw2010.blogspot.com/2025/09/blog...

徐秦关押压期间被 #刑讯逼供；
今年7月获释后，仍遭 #严密监控。

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CHRD人权捍卫者 @chrdnet.bsky.social · 21d

🇨🇳 features prominently in the UN SG's #Reprisal report released today, incl. domestic targeting of defenders and #TNR (transnational repression). We stand in solidarity with victims. Say their names. Demand courage for accountability.
www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry89...

Stop reprisals for cooperation with the UN on human rights

YouTube video by UN Human Rights

www.youtube.com

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Dake Kang @dakekang.bsky.social · 21d

1/THREAD: @AP has published our investigation into how US tech firms enabled China’s digital police state. We obtained multiple, massive leaks of internal and classified Chinese government and corporate documents running into the tens of thousands:
apnews.com/article/chin...

Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show

U.S. technology firms such as IBM, Dell and Cisco largely designed and built China’s surveillance state, an AP investigation finds. The tech companies deny wrongdoing.

apnews.com

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Sophie Richardson @sophiedrich.bsky.social · 23d

“In 2023 #China struck an agreement to boost security for the #PacificGames, held in the #SolomonIslands that year. The athletes left when the games wrapped up, but Chinese cops are still there.”

www.economist.com/asia/2025/09...

A giant “knife-fight” in the Pacific

America, Australia and China battle for influence among the island states

www.economist.com

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Yaqiu Wang 王亚秋 @yaqiu.bsky.social · 25d

In which I said to Americans: “I just can’t emphasize enough to be braver than you think you can. If you don’t pay the middle price now, you’re gonna pay a huge price. People go to jail, people disappear, people die for the right to speak, now you only need to lose your job.” pen.org/what-oversea...

Propaganda, Isolation, Censorship, and Entertainment: What Overseas Press Know About the Authoritarian Playbook

Anna Nemzer, M. Gessen, and Yaqiu Wang discuss how media falls victim under authoritarianism, and what America should watch out for.

pen.org

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China Media Project @chinamediaproject.bsky.social · 27d

Why is UN Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications Melissa Fleming addressing this forum when its framing is clearly explicitly anti-journalism and counter to UN values — not to mention explicitly anti-US in rhetoric? The UN entity profile: 2/4 lingua-sinica.org/dispatch/uni...

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China Media Project @chinamediaproject.bsky.social · 27d

The forum is a prime example of how the party-state is using provinces in its global communication strategy. We have called this "centralization+" — because the center is still decisive, but local resources being applied. The Yunnan CCP is involved here: 3/4 lingua-sinica.org/dispatch/yun...

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Sophie Richardson @sophiedrich.bsky.social · 29d

Looking forward to this discussion later today—on #China govt #arbitrarydetention, incl as possible #crimesagainsthumanity. Eager to hear @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social @rizwangvl.bsky.social @yalkun.bsky.social @vdraphael.bsky.social @wgeid.bsky.social thoughts. PoCs need urgent relief!

Mary Lawlor UN Special Rapporteur HRDs @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social · Sep 5

🗓️ On Tuesday 9 September, I'll be taking part in this #HRC60 side event organised by @chrdnet.bsky.social, @ishr.ch, @amnesty.org & @hrw.org to discuss #China's practice of long term detention for human rights defenders. Looking forward to hearing from my fellow panelists.

Flyer for a Human Rights Council side event titled: “The Systemic Nature of Arbitrary Detention in China: Expanding evidence base demands renewed efforts at accountability.” The event takes place on Tuesday 9 September, 1:00–2:00 pm CEST, Palais des Nations, Room VIII.

Description: The event will share findings and analysis of arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance in China, its impact on human rights advocacy, shortcomings in China’s actions, and recommendations for international community response.

Speakers:
Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
Rizwangul NurMuhammed, Uyghurs at UN Initiative
Sophie Richardson, Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders
Yalkun Uluyol, Human Rights Watch

Moderator: Raphael Viana David, ISHR

The flyer includes a photo collage of dozens of individuals affected by arbitrary detention in China (credit: Amnesty International). Event will be streamed live at youtube.com/@CHRDnet.

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Renee Xia @reneexia.bsky.social · 29d

🛎️ Happening today: A great lineup of experts @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social @sophiedrich.bsky.social and witnesses on human rights, arbitrary detention, persecution of rights defenders in #China, in the #Uyghur region, by the Chinese government.👇 Watch live: www.YouTube.com/@CHRDnet

Mary Lawlor UN Special Rapporteur HRDs @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social · Sep 5

🗓️ On Tuesday 9 September, I'll be taking part in this #HRC60 side event organised by @chrdnet.bsky.social, @ishr.ch, @amnesty.org & @hrw.org to discuss #China's practice of long term detention for human rights defenders. Looking forward to hearing from my fellow panelists.

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