China: Religion and Dissent Excluded from Live Streaming
A new regulation targets influencers and will also punish jokes about Xi Jinping.
A magazine on religious liberty and human rights
A new regulation targets influencers and will also punish jokes about Xi Jinping.
Tudan Lödup (Luo Zhu) defended the use of Tibetan language. He has been sentenced for “separatism.”
The preacher of the Church of the Rock in Shizuishan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, remains in jail and may be sentenced in July.
Only by making his liberation a pre-condition for renewing the agreement with China will the Holy See be able to end the prelate’s calvary.
The new rules come into force on June 30 and deprive of agents’ services performers who criticize the CCP, are suspected of ‘separatism,” or follow non-authorized religions.
When Confucianism is taught independently, courses and seminars are quickly prohibited and teachers go to jail.
In Guangzhou, the elderly were “helped” to celebrate the Dragon Boat festival and told they should not waste their pension money in illegal religion, xie jiao, or superstition.
Hundreds of attorneys are in jail just for defending human rights cases. The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights was asked to visit at least three of them. She didn’t.
Pleas for the lost reverberated in Istanbul recently as relatives of China’s illegally detained Uyghurs gathered to protest the innocence of their loved ones and demand the UN finds them and brings them home.
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