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Hong Kong & Human Rights: October 2, 2024

Jimmy Lai Alleged Mistreatment On September 12, the legal team of Jimmy Lai (黎智英) submitted an urgent appeal to the United Nations Special

Taiwan’s fishing fleet is one of the largest in the world, bringing in $44.6 billion New Taiwan dollars’ ($1.41 billion) worth of catch per year from

Taiwanese Citizens Detained in China Weeks after Taiwanese rights groups said 857 people from Taiwan have been forcibly disappeared or arbitrarily

Twenty-one years since the Iraq War began, there is a strong case that its lack of legitimacy helped nudge the world toward multipolarity. During

When Hong Kong’s journalists could still operate with only the occasional machete attack on their editors back in 2019, the Centre for Communication

A roundup of human rights issues in Hong Kong. Includes updates on the first sedition conviction since Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule in 1997,

This week’s roundup of human rights issues in China focuses on the disappearance of hundreds of Taiwan nationals in China, a U.N. update on Xinjiang

The last batch of 45 Hong Kong activists entered their final pleas on Tuesday (September 4) for light sentences in a landmark national security trial

Last week, an annual survey that ranks press freedom in Hong Kong saw journalists give their lowest scores since it began. Asked by the Hong Kong

As the new Labour government has taken power in the U.K., two policy directions appear to sit in tension with one another. On the one hand,

Journalists Rate Press Freedom Lowest Ever An annual survey that ranks press freedom in Hong Kong has seen journalists give their lowest rating

In June, U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns lamented that there are currently only around 800 American students studying in China, down from a