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If China valued free speech, there would be no coronavirus crisis
Verna Yu|The Guardian|8 Feb 2020|Read original news here. People pay their respects to Chinese doctor and whistleblower Li Wenliang in Hong Kong. Photograph: Jérôme Favre/EPA The death of the whistleblower Chinese doctor Li Wenliang has aroused strong emotions across China. … Continued The post If China valued free speech, there read more →
Authorities plan to build 624 “well off” Border villages in Tibet
FreeTibet.org News|February 7, 2020|Read the original article here. China plans to spend 21 billion yuan on Tibet border villages. The government in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) has promised to build 624 new “well off” villages and farms on … Continued The post Authorities plan to build 624 “well read more →
Pelosi, Trump pray for Tibetans, other religious prisoners, at Prayer Breakfast
By International Campaign for Tibet|February 6, 2020, Read original news here. Top US leaders prayed for religious prisoners in Tibet this morning at the National Prayer Breakfast while a Tibetan monk who escaped torture and imprisonment raised awareness of China’s ruthless … Continued The post Pelosi, Trump pray for Tibetans, other read more →
A Rare Online Revolt Emerges in China Over Death of Coronavirus Whistle-Blower
By Li Yuan, New York Times, Feb. 7, 2020, Read original news here. The doctor, Li Wenliang, had been silenced by the police after warning about the new coronavirus that has killed hundreds in China and sickened thousands. A makeshift memorial for … Continued The post A Rare Online Revolt Emerges in read more →
China Is Under Lockdown
James Palmer for Foreign Policy. Read the article here. Is China’s Virus Lockdown Working? The toll of the new coronavirus that originated in Wuhan keeps rising, with Chinese officials reporting nearly 500 fatalities and 24,447 confirmed cases as of Wednesday. So far, … Continued The post China Is Under Lockdown appeared first read more →
China’s Global Human-Rights Whitewash
ARYEH NEIER, Project-Syndicate, Feb 5, 2020, Read original news here. Under President Xi Jinping, China has forcibly detained hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and stepped up its violations of human rights at home. And now Xi is using China’s international clout … Continued The post China’s Global Human-Rights Whitewash appeared first read more →
How China’s Xi Jinping destroyed religion and made himself God
Steve. W Mosheren for the New York Post. Read the article here. Catholic churches were torn down or denuded of their crosses and statues. Images of the Madonna and Child replaced with pictures of “People’s Leader” Xi Jinping. Signs posted outside … Continued The post How China’s Xi Jinping destroyed religion read more →
European countries weigh in on Tibetan Buddhists’ right to pick next Dalai Lama
By International Campaign for Tibet, February 4, 2020, Read original report here. Belgium and the Netherlands have weighed in on the rights of the Tibetan Buddhists by declaring that it is up to the Tibetan religious community to select the future Dalai … Continued The post European countries weigh in on Tibetan read more →
Chinese Officials Can’t Help Lying About the Wuhan Virus
Despite calls for transparency, repression is baked into the system. BY JAMES PALMER, 3 February 2020. Read original news here. Medical workers hold a strike near Queen Mary Hospital to demand the government shut the city’s border with China to reduce … Continued The post Chinese Officials Can’t Help Lying About read more →
Preventing climate change is a human rights issue
Andrew Gilmour, The Print. 3 February 2020. Read the original article here. Every society in the world is going to pay a price for global warming. But it’s the poorest countries and communities who will suffer the most from rising seas … Continued The post Preventing climate change is a human read more →
China’s hold on N.Y. universities: SUNY must investigate, if not shut down, the Confucius Institutes
TODD PITTINSKY for New York Daily News. Read the original article here. When left-leaning groups like the Association of University Professors, right-leaning outfits like the National Association of Scholars and a bipartisan U.S. Senate investigation worry about the same thing, something’s either really right — … Continued The post China’s hold on N.Y. universities: SUNY read more →
Nepal facing alarming Chinese pressure of late
Gajendra Basnet, Khabarhub.com, January 21 2020, Read original news here. KATHMANDU: China seems to enhance its political, economic, and cultural influence in Nepal – overtly and covertly — through intimidation and pressure with an aim to consolidating its status of a … Continued The post Nepal facing alarming Chinese pressure of read more →
China: Respect Rights in Coronavirus Response
Human Rights Watch. January 30, 2020. Read the original article here. (New York) – The Chinese government should ensure that human rights are protected while responding to the coronavirus outbreak, Human Rights Watch said today. As of January 29, 2020, confirmed cases … Continued The post China: Respect Rights in Coronavirus Response read more →
House passes Tibet human rights bill
By Haley Byrd, CNN, 28 January 2020, Read original news here. (CNN)Lawmakers in the House approved a bill Tuesday afternoon to update the 2002 Tibetan Policy Act, the latest in a series of congressional moves to strengthen America’s stance towards China. … Continued The post House passes Tibet human rights bill read more →
U.S. House of Representatives Passes McGovern Bill to Hold China Accountable for Human Rights Abuses in Tibet
mcgovern.house.gov, Read original report here. WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. House of Representative passed, by a vote of 392 to 22, a bipartisan bill introduced by Congressman James P. McGovern (D-MA), Chairman of the House Rules Committee and the Congressional-Executive Commission … Continued The post U.S. House of Representatives Passes McGovern read more →