With Breadwinners Locked in Camps, Families Struggle to Survive
The mass confinement of Xinjiang’s Uyghurs in internment camps resulted in a myriad of children and parents of the detained left with no means of subsistence.
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Three Chinese Rights Lawyers ‘Vulnerable to Torture’ in Detention: UN Experts
Three United Nations human rights experts have expressed “grave concern” over the fate of three human rights lawyers forcibly disappeared by the Chinese authorities after attending an informal meeting of dissidents in the southeastern port city of Xiamen in December.
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Three-Self Churches Under Constant Government Surveillance
The CCP has installed cameras in places of worship to ensure complete control and punish those who don’t worship according to its regulations.
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Outcry as 13 U.S. Journalists Face ‘Imminent Banishment’ From China
China is getting ready to expel at least 13 U.S. news correspondents working in the country amid growing bilateral tensions with Washington over press freedom and visas for journalists.
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Approved by the State but Not Allowed to Function
While the CCP governs the Three-Self Church, many of its venues are not issued religious activity registration certificates and are subsequently stifled and shut.
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‘I Have the Obligation to Speak for the Dead’
Born and raised in the 1990s, Wuhan resident Tu Long once believed that as long as he didn’t make any politically sensitive remarks or do anything out of line, as long as he was the “obedient citizen” the government wanted him to be, his path would lead upward.
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Police Torture Believers to Get Information on Church Money
To eradicate The Church of Almighty God, the CCP goes to great lengths to deprive it of financial means, including vicious harassment of its members.
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Eradication of Jiangxi Province’s House Churches in Full Swing
Unregistered Protestant churches were continuously pressured in 2019 to join the state-run Three-Self Church. Crackdowns don’t seem to ease down this year.
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Tens of Thousands Call on US to Take up Case of Wuhan Reporters
A petition calling on Washington to take up the case of coronavirus reporter Chen Qiushi, who is being held by the authorities in enforced “quarantine” after he reported from the front line of the COVID-19 epidemic, has garnered tens of thousands of signatures since it was posted last month.
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China State Media’s Attempt to Refute Leaked Uighur Document Seems to Validate It
WASHINGTON – In an effort to refute a recently leaked document that allegedly details China’s massive detention system targeting the minority Uighurs, the Chinese state-owned outlet China Daily is airing two video clips that seemingly support information found in the document.
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