It has been nearly two months since Jimmy Lai (黎智英), the media mogul and pro-democracy activist, was sentenced to 20 years in prison under Hong Kong’s
human rights
Beijing Codifies Repression of Overseas Activists
Earlier this month, China’s legislature approved a new law aimed at promoting what it refers to as “ethnic unity.” The law’s primary focus is
Anthropologist Gerald Roche on China’s New Ethnic Unity Law (Q&A)
On Thursday, China’s ceremonial legislature approved a sweeping new law to promote what it refers to as “ethnic unity.” The law calls on all sectors
Survivor Warns Against Forgetting 1980 White Terror Killings
Tien Chiu-chin (田秋堇) was 25 years old when she arrived at the house of her former boss, democracy activist Lin I-hsiung (林義雄), to find the slain
Fighting for Information in the World’s ‘Largest Prison for Journalists’
About a month after her release from the Shanghai Women’s Prison in May 2024, citizen journalist and former lawyer Zhang Zhan (張展) made her first post
Global Support for Jimmy Lai Surges in Wake of 20-Year Sentence
Over the course of pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai’s (黎智英) marathon trial in Hong Kong, advocacy from foreign leaders on his behalf was intermittent,
Beijing Might Not Release Jimmy Lai Because It’s Right. They Should Do it Because It’s Smart
On Friday, a bipartisan group of five U.S. Congressman wrote a letter to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in Oslo nominating Jimmy Lai (黎智英), along
Jimmy Lai Sentenced to 20 Years in Hong Kong National Security Trial
Jimmy Lai (黎智英), the media tycoon and pro-democracy campaigner, was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison, marking the end of the high-profile trial
Hong Kong Media Tycoon Jimmy Lai to Be Sentenced on Monday
Jimmy Lai (黎智英), the imprisoned pro-democracy media tycoon who has become a symbol of the Chinese government’s crackdown on free expression in Hong
Why the Xinjiang Camps Closed
The night before she was released, Tursunay Ziyawudun couldn’t sleep. For 10 months, locked in a reeducation camp near her hometown in Xinjiang, she
Xinjiang Whistleblower Awaits Asylum Decision While Chinese Influencers Work to Discredit Him
When BuzzFeed News published its 2020 expose on the scale and architecture of China’s crackdown on Uyghurs in Xinjiang, the report didn’t just touch
Who Are the Churches That China Is Persecuting?
On the night of December 14, over 1,000 police officers surrounded Yayang Church in Wenzhou, Zhejiang. At 3 a.m. they burst into the church “with