Three speakers at the yearly Human Rights Implementation Meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ask OSCE participating States to grant asylum to religion-based refugees fleeing China.
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North Korean Defectors Forcibly Deported by CCP
The Chinese authorities deport North Korean defectors back to their country in violation of international human rights agreements. Zhang Li, a man in his sixties from Linjiang city, Jilin Province, told Bitter Winter that two years ago, his North Korean wife of 18...
Senator Rubio to Trump: “It’s Time for Sanctions Against the Persecution of the Uyghurs”
In an NPR interview, Senator Marco Rubio asks President Trump to react with sanctions to the horror of “transformation through education” camps. On September 7, U.S. Republican Senator Marco Rubio, who is co-chair of the Congressional Executive Commission on China,...
Report on Israel Sheds Light on How China Uses International Anti-Cultists
A new report on the Israeli Center for Victims of Cults reveals the links between the Chinese Communist Party and an international network of groups defaming religious minorities as “cults.” The Belgian NGO Human Rights Without Frontiers released on September 4 a...
Tortured to Death: A New Book Documents Extra-Judicial Killings of Members of The Church of Almighty God in China
The Belgian NGO Human Rights Without Frontiers reports on 20 cases of extra-judicial killing of members of The Church of Almighty Good in China On 29 April 1997, Xie Yongjiang learned that one of his friends had been arrested for preaching. Fearing that his friend’s...
Hope for Sister Zou Demei: Lawyer Files Motion to Reopen Her Case
Mr. Russell Abrutyn, attorney for the leader of The Church of Almighty God in four Chinese provinces currently detained in Detroit, who faces deportation back to China and possible execution there, has filed a motion to reopen her case, with new evidence. Readers of...
Arrested Twice for Books on Almighty God
In China, even possessing a book from The Church of Almighty God is sufficient grounds for arrest or persecution; an elderly believer from Shandong knows this well after being apprehended twice. Chen Ye (pseudonym), a 65-years-old member of The Church of Almighty God,...
The Denial of Religious Freedom in China Is A Challenge to the Whole World
The idea of human rights is founded on the principle of natural rights. But official Chinese human rights principles state that human rights are rights given by society to the individual. by Aaron Rhodes This text was presented as a speech at the seminar Freedom of...
Chinese Human Rights Activist Avoids Repatriation from the Netherlands at the Last Minute
Source: Radio Free Asia Date: July 8, 2018 Radio Free Asia reports that Chinese human rights activist Ma Yongtao, who led several public protests against China in Europe, was about to be forcibly repatriated from the Netherlands to China, after his request for...
“1,5 Million Jailed for Their Faith”: Religious Persecution in China Denounced at the European Parliament
Source: Human Rights Without Frontiers, CESNUR Date: June 27, 2018 The situation of religious liberty in China is the worst ever since the Cultural Revolution. At least one and a half million believers are in jail or in “Transformation Through Education” camps simply...