The Rights Practice

The Rights Practice builds the capacity of those working to make human rights a reality. We promote an end to torture and abolition of the death penalty.

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On 15 September 2026, The Rights Practice, along with 59 other orgs, called for Sophia Huang Xueqin's immediate release and the guarantee that, once released, she can carry out her journalism and human rights work without restrictions. https://t.co/ys5I5QWmwn

[CHRD人权捍卫者网络 @CHRDnet]

中国法律明令禁止酷刑，但酷刑为何仍持续发生？

CHRD新报告分析了2016至2025年间209起良心犯涉嫌遭受酷刑和其他虐待的个案，揭示酷刑背后长期存在的调查与问责缺失。

📖《欲盖弥彰：中国政府杜绝酷刑的制度性失败》https://t.co/kOMugHfhss

[Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hkfp]

BREAKING: Three activists who once organised annual vigils to mark the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown crackdown have been sentenced to up to seven years and three months in prison.

In full: https://t.co/iInwRhOw1w

Appearing before a panel of designated judges at the West Kowloon Law Courts Building on Friday, Chow Hang-tung, Lee Cheuk-yan, and Albert Ho were handed the jail terms for inciting subversion under a Beijing-imposed national security law.

Lee received a jail sentence of seven years, Chow was jailed for seven years and three months and Ho – who pleaded guilty – received a sentence of five years and two months imprisonment.

The trio formerly led the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, a now-defunct activist group that held annual vigils to remember the Tiananmen dead. The Alliance itself was handed a fine of HK$1.5 million on Friday, to be paid within three months.

Photo by Anthony Wallace/AFP.

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Today, The Rights Practice, along with five other organisations, express our grave concern about the conviction of human rights barrister Chow Hang-tung, alongside Lee Cheuk-yan, a former legislator, on charges of incitement to subversion in Hong Kong. https://t.co/SiLbyVp2M3

[ISHR @ISHRglobal]

Independent journalist and #MeToo activist #HuangXueqin will be released in 30 days, on September 18th.

📣We urge the international community to continue monitoring her release and health, hoping she will regain true freedom.
#CountdownForFreedom
https://t.co/XXwoTR7mdA

[Andrea Bolaños Vargas @AndreaBV_SR_HRD]

🇨🇳 #China
I am deeply concerned about the detention of HRDr Zhang Yi, arrested after showing a photo of the Dalai Lama during a visit to Sera Monastery in Lhasa. He remains detained on charges of “inciting separatism.”

Peacefully displaying the image of a religious leader cannot constitute a threat to national security. Separatism legislation must not be used to criminalize the exercise of freedom of expression, religion or belief, or legitimate human rights work.

I urge the Chinese authorities to review Zhang Yi’s detention and to release him immediately, given the serious concerns that his detention may be linked to the peaceful exercise of his right to defend human rights. Pending his release, his safety, due process guarantees, and access to his family and legal counsel must be fully respected.

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The Rights Practice, along with 6 other orgs, express grave concern about the arrest of Chinese human rights lawyer Wu Shaoping by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the serious risks surrounding any potential deportation to China https://t.co/Tzb9rsYjam

[Andrea Bolaños Vargas @AndreaBV_SR_HRD]

🇨🇳#China
I am receiving disturbing news about the imminent deportation of Chinese HRD, journalist and whistleblower Bai Zhaodong, from Thailand to China. He fled China in November 2023 having been persecuted and criminalized for exposing large scale corruption and financial fraud implicating officials. He remains detained in Bangkok, reportedly in poor health and without adequate medical care. Despite an ongoing resettlement process, his relocation to a safe third country has twice been obstructed. I urge the Thai authorities to immediately halt any deportation proceedings, facilitate his prompt relocation, and ensure his safety and access to adequate healthcare.

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@UN_SPExperts

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Read our new report 'Mapping Deprivation of Liberty in #China' - Eleven years after the #709Crackdown, lawyers still face harassment and arbitrary detention including in 'residential surveillance at a designated location' (RSDL). https://t.co/MG1UZNvK5K

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2/ On 9 July 2015 & days that followed 100s of lawyers & legal activists were questioned & detained. The wives of detained lawyers were not activists, despite their husbands' legal activism. They took on new role to call for release of their husbands & found novel ways to protest

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1/ Today, on the 11th anniversary of #709Crackdown we re-share TRP Director's reflections on the resistance of the ‘709’ wives to obtain justice for their husbands. https://t.co/DWTuPjaMtj

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2/ We see little evidence that Xi Jinping views the death penalty as a distinct policy instrument. Instead, we see a consolidation in the way capital punishment is being applied as a useful (and somewhat flexible) tool for Xi’s authoritarian model of crime control.

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1/ To coincide with the World Congress Against the Death Penalty, we published a new briefing paper: "Death Penalty Under Xi Jinping" to cast some light on the application of the #deathpenalty in #China under Xi Jinping, party secretary and president https://t.co/DFrH6IAiMk

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The report underlines the risks of arbitrary detention and ill treatment in a system where legislation is vague and incomplete, the courts lack independence (and play a minor role), and the interests of the Chinese Communist Party take precedence.

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Today, to mark International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, we publish an important new report: "Beyond Prison. Mapping Deprivation of Liberty in China". We map the multiple ways in which the Chinese state may deprive someone of their liberty. https://t.co/MG1UZNvK5K

[CHRD人权捍卫者网络 @CHRDnet]

#黄雪琴 被判刑已两年，距离刑满还有95天。
https://t.co/eNfUzyzRQg

2021年9月19日，黄雪琴被抓捕；
2024年6月14日，她被以煽动颠覆国家政权罪判刑五年；
目前在广东省女子监狱服刑。