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Associate Asia director @hrw. Also distinguished fellow @asu_ldns. Email me: wangm(at)hrw(dot)org.
Gao's father died in custody during the Cultural Revolution. As fellow Chinese artists noted in a public letter: "[The [police] has labeled Gao Zhen’s artistic creations as evidence of a crime, repeating the persecutions of the Cultural Revolution.”
October 8, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Gao's father died in custody during the Cultural Revolution. As fellow Chinese artists noted in a public letter: "[The [police] has labeled Gao Zhen’s artistic creations as evidence of a crime, repeating the persecutions of the Cultural Revolution.”
Gao's prosecuted for the crime of “slandering China’s heroes and martyrs”--introduced in 2021--for the well-known sculptures he made over a decade ago, before the crime existed. Under Xi, the Chinese government has tightened ideological control.
October 8, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Gao's prosecuted for the crime of “slandering China’s heroes and martyrs”--introduced in 2021--for the well-known sculptures he made over a decade ago, before the crime existed. Under Xi, the Chinese government has tightened ideological control.
‼️ A Chinese student has been missing during her visit home due to her activism for Tibetan rights while studying in France.
Lawyer Jiang Tianyong, who represents her, has been taken into custody during a meeting with her parents.
French govt should press for their freedom.
Lawyer Jiang Tianyong, who represents her, has been taken into custody during a meeting with her parents.
French govt should press for their freedom.
September 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM
‼️ A Chinese student has been missing during her visit home due to her activism for Tibetan rights while studying in France.
Lawyer Jiang Tianyong, who represents her, has been taken into custody during a meeting with her parents.
French govt should press for their freedom.
Lawyer Jiang Tianyong, who represents her, has been taken into custody during a meeting with her parents.
French govt should press for their freedom.
As people in China, including many young people, tighten their belts, dumpster-diving (or more precisely, picking vegetables thrown out by wholesale veggie sellers, 捡菜) has become a fashionable trend:
September 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
As people in China, including many young people, tighten their belts, dumpster-diving (or more precisely, picking vegetables thrown out by wholesale veggie sellers, 捡菜) has become a fashionable trend:
"Some diplomats asked me if it is still worth making public statements about abuses in Xinjiang...The answer is a resounding yes." Heartbreaking and personal by
@yalkun.bsky.social China's committed crimes against humanity and should be held accountable: thehill.com/opinion/inte...
@yalkun.bsky.social China's committed crimes against humanity and should be held accountable: thehill.com/opinion/inte...
September 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
"Some diplomats asked me if it is still worth making public statements about abuses in Xinjiang...The answer is a resounding yes." Heartbreaking and personal by
@yalkun.bsky.social China's committed crimes against humanity and should be held accountable: thehill.com/opinion/inte...
@yalkun.bsky.social China's committed crimes against humanity and should be held accountable: thehill.com/opinion/inte...
China refuses to release the environmental assessment report of the world's largest dam, claiming it's a "state secret." It said earlier that the dam, being built in Tibet and will have impact on India + Bangladesh, is "a safe project that prioritises ecological protection".
August 27, 2025 at 9:22 PM
China refuses to release the environmental assessment report of the world's largest dam, claiming it's a "state secret." It said earlier that the dam, being built in Tibet and will have impact on India + Bangladesh, is "a safe project that prioritises ecological protection".
The 1-night stand of 2 young people--Chinese woman + Ukranian man--riveted China, reflecting what I wrote earlier: Chinese women's "bodies and loyalty are not theirs alone, but openly judged as reflections on the honour of the entire Han Chinese race." abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
July 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The 1-night stand of 2 young people--Chinese woman + Ukranian man--riveted China, reflecting what I wrote earlier: Chinese women's "bodies and loyalty are not theirs alone, but openly judged as reflections on the honour of the entire Han Chinese race." abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
Wow: U.S.-Based Wells Fargo Banker Blocked From Leaving China www.wsj.com/world/china/... "The use of such measures on foreign executives has intensified concerns about business travel to mainland China in recent years."
July 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Wow: U.S.-Based Wells Fargo Banker Blocked From Leaving China www.wsj.com/world/china/... "The use of such measures on foreign executives has intensified concerns about business travel to mainland China in recent years."
Shocking that the head of a major democracy can't even muster the courage to defend press freedoms --a fundamental human rights-- or mention that the Chinese Constitution guarantees the rights to free expression: www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
July 16, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Shocking that the head of a major democracy can't even muster the courage to defend press freedoms --a fundamental human rights-- or mention that the Chinese Constitution guarantees the rights to free expression: www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
On July 6, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will turn 90 🎂.
Govts should press the Chinese govt to:
1) Stop repressing Tibetans
2) Free the Panchen Lama (the 6-year-old was kidnapped w/ family 30 years ago)
3) Allow journalists, rights researchers unfettered access to Tibet.
Govts should press the Chinese govt to:
1) Stop repressing Tibetans
2) Free the Panchen Lama (the 6-year-old was kidnapped w/ family 30 years ago)
3) Allow journalists, rights researchers unfettered access to Tibet.
June 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
On July 6, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will turn 90 🎂.
Govts should press the Chinese govt to:
1) Stop repressing Tibetans
2) Free the Panchen Lama (the 6-year-old was kidnapped w/ family 30 years ago)
3) Allow journalists, rights researchers unfettered access to Tibet.
Govts should press the Chinese govt to:
1) Stop repressing Tibetans
2) Free the Panchen Lama (the 6-year-old was kidnapped w/ family 30 years ago)
3) Allow journalists, rights researchers unfettered access to Tibet.
On this day in #HongKong, when 1 million people packed the city demanding democracy and sparked the months-long and dramatic 2019 protests.
6 years later: Hong Kong is now a city where advocating for democracy is a crime punishable with life in prison.
6 years later: Hong Kong is now a city where advocating for democracy is a crime punishable with life in prison.
June 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
On this day in #HongKong, when 1 million people packed the city demanding democracy and sparked the months-long and dramatic 2019 protests.
6 years later: Hong Kong is now a city where advocating for democracy is a crime punishable with life in prison.
6 years later: Hong Kong is now a city where advocating for democracy is a crime punishable with life in prison.
Breaking‼️ While imprisoned under one trumped-up charge, Joshua Wong has been suddenly slapped with yet another as the authorities appear intent on keeping one of Hong Kong's most influential democracy leaders behind bars. This decision is arbitrary, cruel, and outrageous.
June 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Breaking‼️ While imprisoned under one trumped-up charge, Joshua Wong has been suddenly slapped with yet another as the authorities appear intent on keeping one of Hong Kong's most influential democracy leaders behind bars. This decision is arbitrary, cruel, and outrageous.
87 groups condemn #HongKong govt's arrests of relatives of prominent activist Anna Kwok. Governments should speak up + act against the Chinese govt's most blatant act of transnational repression against a HK activist. www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...
May 7, 2025 at 10:36 PM
87 groups condemn #HongKong govt's arrests of relatives of prominent activist Anna Kwok. Governments should speak up + act against the Chinese govt's most blatant act of transnational repression against a HK activist. www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...
In significant escalation, #HongKong govt charges the father of US-based exiled activist, Anna Kwok, with national security crime that can lead up to 7 years in prison. The intention is to intimidate the pro-democratic Hong Kong diaspora into silence www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...
May 5, 2025 at 12:27 PM
In significant escalation, #HongKong govt charges the father of US-based exiled activist, Anna Kwok, with national security crime that can lead up to 7 years in prison. The intention is to intimidate the pro-democratic Hong Kong diaspora into silence www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...
Given the fact that the Chinese govt could starve ~40 million Chinese people to death during Mao's Great Leap Famine (& the rest survived by eating stuff like tree bark), I think the answer to this question by @scmpnews.bsky.social
is rather straight-forward:
is rather straight-forward:
April 30, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Given the fact that the Chinese govt could starve ~40 million Chinese people to death during Mao's Great Leap Famine (& the rest survived by eating stuff like tree bark), I think the answer to this question by @scmpnews.bsky.social
is rather straight-forward:
is rather straight-forward:
Following the suspicious death of Tibetan high lama Humkar Dorje Rinpoche in Vietnam, the Chinese authorities are reportedly censoring information about him back home, arresting those sharing photos about him: Voice of Tibet cn.vot.org/2025/04/18/%...
April 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Following the suspicious death of Tibetan high lama Humkar Dorje Rinpoche in Vietnam, the Chinese authorities are reportedly censoring information about him back home, arresting those sharing photos about him: Voice of Tibet cn.vot.org/2025/04/18/%...
We @hrw.org join >100 groups calling on the Chinese government to free Inner Mongolian dissident Hada, whom the authorities have forcibly disappeared from hospital where he was receiving treatment. Hada has been imprisoned, repeatedly disappeared for 30 years. www.smhric.org/news_753.htm
April 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We @hrw.org join >100 groups calling on the Chinese government to free Inner Mongolian dissident Hada, whom the authorities have forcibly disappeared from hospital where he was receiving treatment. Hada has been imprisoned, repeatedly disappeared for 30 years. www.smhric.org/news_753.htm
Is the Chinese govt exploiting the US legal system to go after a Chinese activist? rfa.org/english/spec... @majuismail1122.bsky.social is a Hui Muslim activist, is a courageous voice for human rights, a Youtube commentator, and a philanthropist.
March 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Is the Chinese govt exploiting the US legal system to go after a Chinese activist? rfa.org/english/spec... @majuismail1122.bsky.social is a Hui Muslim activist, is a courageous voice for human rights, a Youtube commentator, and a philanthropist.
The shadow ban has been in place since Nov 27, but in the last day or so, Twitter also seems to prohibit others from searching for information posted on Teacher Li's account.
December 6, 2024 at 4:46 PM
The shadow ban has been in place since Nov 27, but in the last day or so, Twitter also seems to prohibit others from searching for information posted on Teacher Li's account.
Twitter appears to have shadow-banned Teacher Li, a Chinese language influencer, a one-man news agency getting info out from China that the Chinese govt doesn't want people to see. If you search for his name, Twitter gives you accounts that imitates him:
December 6, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Twitter appears to have shadow-banned Teacher Li, a Chinese language influencer, a one-man news agency getting info out from China that the Chinese govt doesn't want people to see. If you search for his name, Twitter gives you accounts that imitates him:
.@hrw statement on Hong Kong's sentencing of 45 pro-democracy activists:
November 19, 2024 at 3:58 AM
.@hrw statement on Hong Kong's sentencing of 45 pro-democracy activists: