Lawmakers in America have recommended jailed Uyghur activist Ilham Tohti for the Nobel Peace Prize. Tohti has been sentenced to life in prison by the Chinese government for engaging in activities that promoted “separatism.” He was fighting for rights of the persecuted Uyghur community. The nomination was supported by U.S. lawmakers from both sides of ...
Researchers from an Australian-led study have called for the withdrawal of more than 400 organ transplant research papers from China amid concerns the organs were acquired from prisoners. In the study published this month in the medical journal BMJ Open, researchers said that 445 research papers published in English language medical journals included studies using ...
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has intensified its efforts in instilling atheism on primary and secondary school students, according to Bitter Winter — a magazine that reports on religious liberty and human rights in China. Students are taught to reject religious beliefs and are encouraged to report each other to the authorities if they find that ...
The Internet stores all kinds of personal information about its users, from their text messages to photos, videos, speech, and so on. Though we wish the Internet to be a safe, secure space where our data is protected from third parties all the time, the truth is that this is not the case at all. ...
Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun from Hong Kong has been chosen to receive the “Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom” for his role in furthering the cause of fundamental human rights. Awarded by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, the Cardinal was honored with the Freedom Medal on January 28, 2019. Honoring Cardinal Zen “Cardinal Zen ...
With the FBI and other intelligence agencies increasing their use of facial recognition surveillance, various human rights groups have come forward and asked tech companies like Amazon to stop selling such products to the government. In addition to risking the loss of personal freedoms, facial surveillance is also said to be heavily biased against certain ...
Badger Sport has cut off ties with one of its Chinese suppliers, Heitan Taida Apparel, after reports suggested that it was using slave labor from the Xinjiang internment camps to produce clothing for the American brand. In the U.S., the Customs and Border Protection Department typically has the right to seize any goods identified as ...
A Canadian arrested in China suffered three weeks of hell inside a local jail for making insensitive remarks about the country on WeChat. Not only was he sent back home without his Chinese wife and child, but the person is also being subjected to an online defamation campaign that aims to make his life difficult ...
Health officials in China have admitted to investigators that they source organs from living Falun Gong practitioners for transplant purposes, says a new report. From October 19 to December 2 last year, investigators spoke via phone with presidents or directors of a number of Chinese hospitals, says the report released last month by the U.S-based ...
The harsh communist rule of North Korea forces thousands of people to escape their homes to neighboring countries. This comes with a huge risk — if caught, North Korean defectors will be subject to extreme punishments by the North Korean communist authorities determined to make an example of them as potential “traitors.” North Korean defectors ...
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