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Tibetans ordered to replace Dalai Lama portraits with Chinese party leaders or risk losing aid
Some families in Tibet are being forced to replace portraits of the Dalai Lamai with those of President Xi Jinping of China in order to continue receiving government aid, as authorities clamp down on efforts to assimilate minorities. Pictures and … Continued The post Tibetans ordered to replace Dalai Lama read more →
‘Save Hong Kong from China!’ Hong Kong Protesters Call for Foreign Backing in Their Struggle for Greater Freedom
By TIME STAFF, Read the original article here. Protesters in Hong Kong Wednesday directly solicited foreign backing for their push for greater political freedom, in a bold move that is certain to draw the ire of Beijing. Several hundred protesters … Continued The post ‘Save Hong Kong from China!’ Hong read more →
Xinjiang Vice Governor Paints Internment Camps as ‘Vocational Centers’ at UN Rights Council
The vice governor of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) on Tuesday defended the government’s policy of incarcerating Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in internment camps, repeating for the United Nations Beijing’s claims that the camps are part of … Continued The post Xinjiang Vice Governor Paints Internment Camps read more →
Pomegranate Propaganda: A Chinese Government Official’s UN Speech
The vice governor of Xinjiang, a region in the northwest of China, made it through the first sentence of a 10-minute speech to the United Nations Human Rights Council today without misrepresenting any facts. He got a few other points right, too … Continued The post Pomegranate Propaganda: A Chinese Government Official’s read more →
China’s Hackers Accused Of ‘Mass-Scale Espionage’ Attack On Global Cellular Networks
By Zak Doffman, Read the original article here. An Israeli-U.S. cybersecurity firm released a new report on Monday evening, claiming that “nation-state” hackers had compromised the systems of at least ten cellular carriers around the world to steal metadata related to … Continued The post China’s Hackers Accused Of ‘Mass-Scale Espionage’ read more →
China is Forcibly Harvesting Organs from Religious Detainees
By Steve Williams, Read the original article here. China’s human rights abuses are well known, and now a new independent panel report lifts the lid on a horrifying fact: China is forcibly taking organs from its prison population, from which many … Continued The post China is Forcibly Harvesting Organs from read more →
China’s Long, Hot Summer of Censorship
By Sarah Cook, Read the original article here. June has been a terrible month for internet freedom in China. July may be even worse. Every year in June, China’s censors go into overdrive to prevent citizens from discussing, commemorating, or … Continued The post China’s Long, Hot Summer of Censorship read more →
Beijing says it won’t allow Hong Kong to be brought up at G20
By Ben Westcott and Yong Xiong, Hong Kong (CNN) Read the original article here. A top Chinese Foreign Ministry official said Beijing would “not allow” the Hong Kong protests to be brought up at the G20 meeting in Osaka beginning on Thursday. Assistant Minister of Foreign … Continued The post Beijing says it won’t allow Hong read more →
Tibet’s climate, land use policy not China’s internal affair: Sangay
Statesman News Service, Read the original article here. Addressing a panel discussion on Climate Change and Tibet at University College London’s Darwin Lecture Theatre, he implored upon the strategic importance of the Tibetan plateau as the largest repository of fresh … Continued The post Tibet’s climate, land use policy not read more →
Google Brushes Off a Shareholder Revolt Over Its Plans in China
By Leo Sun, Read the original article here. Last year, Alphabet ‘s (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google faced a fierce backlash after details leaked about its censored search engine for China, codenamed Dragonfly. In December, The Intercept claimed that Google “effectively ended” the … Continued The post Google Brushes Off a Shareholder Revolt read more →
Google defeats shareholders on ‘Dragonfly’ censored search in China
By Zack Whittaker, Read the original article here. A shareholder resolution aimed at halting Google’s efforts to bring a censored version of its search engine to China has failed. Shareholders tabled a resolution to demand Google put the brakes on its controversial … Continued The post Google defeats shareholders on ‘Dragonfly’ censored read more →
‘Experienced full religious freedom in India as vulnerable minority’: Tibetan Commissioner’s dissent note on US report
By DNA Web Team, Read the original article here. Dr Tenzin Dorjee, the Commmissioner of the USCIRF wrote a powerful dissent note. On Sunday, as there was much ballyhoo and outrage from the usual suspects over the US Religious Freedom Report 2018, … Continued The post ‘Experienced full religious freedom in India read more →
China, Pakistan, Saudi Worst for Human Rights; Mostly Muslims at the Receiving End – US Reports
By EurAsian Times, Read the original article here. The Annual Report on Religious Freedom, released this year has turned quite a few heads at the increasing atrocities towards minorities across the globe especially in China, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. The US … Continued The post China, Pakistan, Saudi Worst for Human read more →
Keep pressing China on human rights
By The Seattle Times editorial board, Read the original article here. President Donald Trump tweeted that he’ll have an “extended meeting” with China President Xi Jinping at the G-20 summit in Japan this week. Resolving the nations’ trade dispute, and getting China … Continued The post Keep pressing China on human rights read more →
Nepal and China discuss plans to upgrade military ties
Nepal Army chief General Purna Chandra Thapa on Thursday met China’s Defence Minister General Wei Fenghe and discussed plans to upgrade the military ties between the two neighboring countries. Thapa is on a week-long official tour to China. He arrived … Continued The post Nepal and China discuss plans to read more →