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Today is International Day of the disappeared. Being disappeared is more than a human rights violation against an individual. It is used as a strategy to spread terror within society. The feeling of insecurity generated by this practice extends to the relatives and loved ones of the disappeared, as well as their communities and society …
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Amnesty International’s latest report Like We Were Enemies In A War is a comprehensive human rights investigation into the crushing repression faced by Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Based on scores of interviews – 55 of them with former detainees – the investigation since October 2019 found evidence …
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Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region face systematic state-organized mass imprisonment, torture and persecution amounting to crimes against humanity, Amnesty International said as it launched a new report and campaign today. In the 160-page report, ‘Like We Were Enemies in a War’: China’s Mass Internment, Torture, and …
Responding to reports that the Chinese government is set to allow married couples to have up to three children, raising it from the current limit of two, the head of Amnesty International’s China Team, Joshua Rosenzweig, said: “Governments have no business regulating how many children people have. Rather than ‘optimizing’ its birth policy, China should …
Continue reading “China: ‘Three-child policy’ still a violation of sexual and reproductive rights”
The exiled families of Uyghur children held in state “orphanages” in the Chinese region of Xinjiang described the torment of being separated in a new piece of Amnesty International research released today. The organization spoke to parents who have been completely cut off from their children – some as young as five years old – and cannot return …
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Amnesty International speaks to six Uyghur parents who have been separated from their children in the hopes of reunification.
Commenting on confirmation that Australian journalist Cheng Lei has been formally arrested by Chinese authorities, Amnesty International Australia Individuals at Risk Campaigner Rose Kulak said: “Cheng Lei should be released immediately and unconditionally unless there is sufficient credible and admissible evidence that she has committed an internationally recognised offence and is granted a fair trial …
Australia should offer safe haven visas to Hongkongers currently based in Australia, and those fleeing persecution under new repressive national security laws passed by Chinese authorities. “We welcome Prime Minister Scott Morrison mooting offering people from Hong Kong safe haven visas, just as the UK government is intending,” Amnesty International Australia campaigner, Nikita White said. …
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Responding to today’s passing of a national security law for Hong Kong by the Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress, the head of Amnesty International’s China Team, Joshua Rosenzweig, said: “The passing of the national security law is a painful moment for the people of Hong Kong and represents the greatest threat to human …
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Saudi Arabia executed a record number of people in 2019, despite an overall decline in executions worldwide, Amnesty International said in its 2019 global review of the death penalty published today. The Saudi authorities put 184 people to death last year, the highest number Amnesty has ever recorded in a single year in the country. …
