Sophie Richardson

Co-Exec Dir, Chinese Human Rights Defenders. 2024 Visiting Scholar, CDDRL, Stanford. Frm China Director, HRW. Views expressed are my own. RTs not endorsement.

[Sophie Richardson @SophieDRich]

Hmm, struggling to recall #China govt's #humanrights #duediligence reporting, #consultation #compensation strategies for this mega-dam in #Tibet? Humans and the #climatecrisis aren't helped by unjust transitions. @CHRDnet @ClimateRights
https://t.co/YfoxZnZvPR

[CHRD人权捍卫者网络 @CHRDnet]

据维权网报道，劳工权益倡导者 #冯睿 被羁押期间几乎每天都遭到审讯，最多一天三次。即使出现呕吐、腹泻等症状，身体虚弱到需要轮椅代步，警方仍继续审讯。

冯睿于9月14日被广州警方带走，因涉嫌“寻衅滋事罪”被羁押，目前关押于广州市越秀区看守所。

声明全文：https://t.co/7POoFL5QCN

#释放冯睿

[Abduweli Ayup @AbduwelA]

Beneath the endless desert sands lie the buried memories of a people—Uyghur Films. Since September 2016, Uyghur books, films, and music videos were collected and destroyed. Fearing punishment for possessing people buried them in the desert. Wind uncovered them recently as you saw

[James Millward 米華健 @JimMillward]

Very well reported story on how new Starbucks in Urumchi stands on property confiscated from a private Uyghur company during mass internment / incarceration campaign a few years ago. Taken and sold at auction to a single state company bidder. https://t.co/nI6w6kb9AP

[Hong Kong Democracy Council @hkdc_us]

#HongKong #PoliticalPrisoner Jason Chan was released in August. Convicted of riot along w/ pro-democracy leader Lam Cheuk-ting & others for defending citizens against the Yuen Long pro-gov't thug attacks on 21 July 2019. His parents emigrated to the UK & returned to HK to see him

[CHRD人权捍卫者网络 @CHRDnet]

🚨 5 yrs in prison for his beliefs. Khensur Lobsang Tenpa, former abbot of Ragya Monastery, is the latest target of 🇨🇳 govt’s crackdown in Golok, where Tibetan schools have also been shut. #ReligiousFreedom is a human right.
👉 https://t.co/8STCytlsjX
👉 https://t.co/02z870hq8X

[TibetanReview @TibetanReview]

#China has shut at least three more #Tibetan schools, including an orphanage, a nomadic girls' school, and a community-funded primary school, under Beijing's new language laws for refusing Chinese language, #Sinicization focused curricula.
https://t.co/tWmPvWhU3D

[CHRD人权捍卫者网络 @CHRDnet]

今天是 #郑达鸿 38岁生日

郑达鸿因参与2020年民主派初选，于2021年被捕，2024年11月被以“串谋颠覆国家政权罪”判刑6年6个月。

他是申请终极上诉许可的11名被告之一。香港终审法院已排期12月10日举行许可聆讯。

#香港47人案

[Rayhan E. Asat @RayhanAsat]

Great work by @shahitbiz again proving what the world knows directly from the Chinese government's own primary sources. In my podcast interview later, I will mention this.

[维权网 @weiquanwang]

维权网: 获刑6年6个月的香港47人案之郑达鸿狱中度过其38岁生日 https://t.co/70igZccmah

[China Digital Times @CDT]

New Call for China to Free U.S. Scholar Min Zin

"China’s detention of Min Zin is an affront to international norms and standards and sends a chilling message to those who uphold the principles of intellectual freedom and the open exchange of ideas." https://t.co/Vt5jiMLfou

[CHRD人权捍卫者网络 @CHRDnet]

#于凯 律师在致全国人大的立法建议中，援引包括其本人在内的五起涉及公民言论表达、申诉、举报及监督权的案件，建议废除“寻衅滋事罪”。

五起案件涉及 #于凯、#冯睿、#赵宏亮、#镡佐龙、#尹建根。

于凯指出，该罪名规定模糊，容易被扩大适用，可能侵害公民的言论自由及申诉、控告等权利。

[CHRD人权捍卫者网络 @CHRDnet]

四川自贡70岁人权捍卫者 #曹世芬 因张贴选举宣传材料遭行政拘留6日

据《民生观察》报道，9月16日，她在公共场所张贴介绍选举程序、选民权利及监督方式的宣传材料。

9月18日，被警方处以行政拘留6日。获释后，她起诉自贡市大安区公安分局，质疑处罚的合法性及执法程序。

法院定于11月11日开庭审理。

[CHRD人权捍卫者网络 @CHRDnet]

青海果洛拉加寺前住持 #丹巴嘉措 被判刑五年

据《西藏之声》报道，他于今年8月5日被警方拘捕，10月5日被判刑五年，具体罪名不详。

据报警方在其僧舍发现达赖喇嘛及寺院寺主的照片，以及存有达赖喇嘛开示语录的U盘。

报道全文： https://t.co/qG88VKTIGV

[Samuel Bickett @SamuelBickett]

In the 2.5 years we've been writing about Hong Kong's role as a leading sanctions evasion hub, its efforts have only expanded, while Europe & the US have done little to counter it. @jonstivers of @thecfhk's new report provides an update on the situation. https://t.co/hCf5a5SaWG

[William Nee @williamnee]

More censorship on viral human trafficking cases in China

“Last month, the case of Sun Meihua (孫美華) rattled China before her name disappeared from the internet.”

https://t.co/jfGqEzOg2d via @cnmediaproject

[Radio Free Asia @RadioFreeAsia]

Authorities are still investigating Wednesday’s firebombing of the Dalai Lama’s representative office in South Africa, police told Radio Free Asia, as activists accused China of having a hand in the attack.

[CHRD人权捍卫者网络 @CHRDnet]

#冯正虎｜把宪法当真的上海公民

2009年，因多次被拒绝入境中国，在日本成田机场滞留约三个月，争取返回本国的权利。

回国后，他发起“我要立案”行动，记录法院拒绝立案的案例，帮助公民依法维护诉权。

冯正虎坚持“护宪维权，快乐生活”，以法律程序推动公民权利保障。

全文：https://t.co/ZCjdFxr412

[TibetanReview @TibetanReview]

#China has jailed Lobsang Tenpa, a former abbot of a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Machen, Golog, for five years after arresting him for possessing photographs and audio-visual materials of #Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the @DalaiLama.
https://t.co/v6F7xzjpF5

[CHRD人权捍卫者网络 @CHRDnet]

#锡安教会案｜#吴秋雨 认罪认罚后，庭审延期逾两个月

10月19日，吴秋雨丈夫杨俊牧师披露，吴秋雨于8月6日在检察机关多次劝说下接受“非法经营罪”的认罪认罚。据家属称，检方曾表示认罪认罚可获缓刑。

原定8月举行的庭审被取消，至今未重新排期。家属多次申请取保候审遭拒。

[#FreeJimmyLai @SupportJimmyLai]

Sebastien Lai described his father’s prison conditions to @shehabkhan on @zeteo_news. He said the cell is less than 60 square feet, with natural light blocked off. In summer, Jimmy Lai bakes in the heat.

“All of these things are aimed to break him.”

Jimmy is 78. He has been in prison for nearly six years.

Watch here: https://t.co/WcmZCknQHY

#FreeJimmyLai #BringHimHome