Lee Ching-yu, the wife of imprisoned democracy activist Lee Ming-che, will attend President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night as a guest of Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ). Lee Ming-che, a citizen of Taiwan, was arrested in mainland China in 2017 for “subverting state power.”
The advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged Venezuelan President Juan Guaidó and the nation’s legislature on Thursday to reconsider what it described as an “imprecise and vague” law passed to grant amnesty to soldiers who stop taking orders from dictator Nicolás Maduro.
Concerns have been raised “about the number and severity of injuries resulting from the use of force by law enforcement officers” during Yellow Vest anti-government protests in Paris by a pan-European human right body.
The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights confirmed on Tuesday that the number of arrests of peaceful anti-socialist dissidents hit record highs last week in Venezuela, when Interim President Juan Guaidó replaced dictator Nicolás Maduro.
The Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights has travelled to Paris to speak with the French government about the Yellow Vest protests after footage and images of the government’s heavy-handed attempts to break the protests flashed around the world.
France’s Emmanuel Macron began a three-day trip to Egypt on Sunday that will include a meeting with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to sign deals worth hundreds of millions of euros, a move likely to spark new criticism of Egypt’s human rights record.
Amnesty International on Thursday declared 2018 a “Year of Shame” for Iran because it arrested over 7,000 dissidents, sent hundreds of them to prison, physically abused the prisoners, and killed at least 26 of them.
The Chinese government invited representatives from 12 neighboring, mostly Muslim-majority countries this week to tour some of the internment camps built in western Xinjiang province to indoctrinate, torture, and exploit the labor of Chinese Muslims.
China’s ambassador to South Africa, Lin Songtian, published an opinion column in the official Communist Party newspaper People’s Daily on Friday suggesting that China has the world’s “fastest human rights progress,” “anyone could express his or her views anywhere anytime” in the country, and those who condemn Chinese authoritarianism are hypocrites.
A recent ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) found that German authorities had not violated a family’s rights when they stormed their home and forcibly seized their four children to prevent them from receiving homeschooling, a decision condemned by human rights advocates as “a major blow to parental rights.”
A United Nations expert described North Korea’s serial human rights abuses as creating an “extremely serious” situation in the communist country during a visit to South Korea Friday, urging Pyongyang to allow U.N. inspections and the world to resolve the current sanctions situation on the country.
New Year’s Day brought thousands of demonstrators to the streets of Hong Kong to denounce China’s oppressive policies and to demand respect for human rights and the rule of law.
Members of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of the Patriotic Democratic Movement in China dressed in Santa Claus outfits spent the Christmas holiday mailing cards to political prisoners and the Chinese officials who imprisoned them.
North Korea’s state media assailed the United States and allies at the United Nations Tuesday for helping pass a resolution condemning Pyongyang’s decades-long systematic human rights abuses, calling the resolution “a serious political provocation against the dignified” Korean state.
The wives of four Chinese human-rights lawyers imprisoned in the big crackdown of summer 2015 shaved their heads on Monday to protest the government’s treatment of their husbands. “We can go hairless, but you cannot be lawless,” they declared at the conclusion of their head-shaving event.
Contents: US issues new sanctions on North Korea over human rights abuses; North Korea threatens retaliation for the sanctions; Japan-Korea relations worsen over ‘comfort women’ issue
The Chinese government published a paper on Wednesday entitled “Progress in Human Rights Over the 40 Years of Reform and Opening Up in China.”
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti was heckled off a stage at the University of Southern California on Monday evening as he attempted to deliver a speech marking the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Communist Party head President Xi Jinping of China observed International Human Rights Day on Monday by pledging to “uphold the path of human rights development that fits the Chinese context and promotes well-rounded human development.”
American country music artist Tim McGraw will host a four-day music festival in Cuba next year featuring Communist Party-approved local acts and complimentary gifts from Castro regime companies such as the illegally operating Havana Club, Billboard reported on Wednesday.
The Organization of American States (OAS) will host an unprecedented day-long event Friday offering an international platform to the victims of crimes against humanity and their families, who have suffered by the hand of Cuban communist regime.
Google reportedly excluded privacy and security employees from meetings about its “Project Dragonfly” censored Chinese search app after one employee expressed concerns over its potential effect on human rights.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo penned a no-holds-barred editorial for the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday in which he defended President Donald Trump’s approach to the relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia in the wake of writer Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.
China’s most famous civil rights activist has joined the chorus of critics who have denounced the recent deal between the Vatican and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as a “betrayal” of Chinese Catholics.
Respected human rights organizations including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have accused authorities in Saudi Arabia of torturing and even sexually abusing some of the country’s most high profile dissidents and human rights activists.
Contents: Fifteen countries challenge China’s human rights in Xinjiang province; China’s crackdown on religions continues
North Korea’s state newspaper Rodong Sinmun condemned the United States and other Western countries for allegedly being home to the “world’s most serious violations of human rights” in an editorial Thursday.
The Beijing Fengrui law firm, once home to over 100 lawyers and some of the most sophisticated legal representation for human rights activists and enemies of the state in China, has “ceased to exist” after years of government crackdowns, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported Tuesday.
China’s state media outlets praised official Zhang Jun and its United Nations delegation on Monday for celebrating the country’s alleged human rights progress before the international forum, failing to mention Communist Party leader Xi Jinping’s expansion of political re-education camps and terror campaigns against religious minorities.
Hong Kong authorities stepped up their war against Financial Times editor Victor Mallet on Thursday by refusing to allow him to enter the city as a visitor.
