This is going to be a great event for anyone interested in conflict and justice: Philippe Sands on ‘War, Genocide and Other Crimes’ Imperial War Museums. Sold out but do join us online. April 25th. I’ll be chairing.

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78 months jail for 42 social media posts.

据维权网报道，贵州异议人士 #陈西 自2021年11月28日出狱2年多了，至今仍被严密监控！
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被以“寻衅滋事”罪名判刑4年的江西维权人士朱玉芳今年在江西省女子监狱服刑期间，遭到同监舍犯人殴打，被送到医院。朱玉芳目前在江西省女子监狱四监区服刑。其身患多种疾病，此次又遭受监舍犯人殴打，境况堪忧，亟需关注。朱玉芳是江西萍乡的强拆维权者。曾是经营4家店面的私营业主，因维权两次被判刑。

My contribution to yesterday's debate in the EP on Chinese police activity in #Europe . „This parliament has been a center in the European fight for the rule of law, human rights, freedom and democracy. I hope our successors in the next parliament will follow the same trajectory.“

And what if anything do [PT] Foreign Affairs João Cravinho have to say about #HongKong #China govt #NSL sentencing?

CHINA HACKED CZECH EU PRESIDENCY:

I-Soon is a Chinese cyber espionage company working as a contractor of Chinese intelligence.

In May 2022, these Chinese hackers attacked Czech Foreign Ministry and clearly stole internal documents related to Czech EU Presidency.

Those were…

Appalling to see an RSF reporter visiting #HongKong to monitor the trial of #JimmyLai denied entry.

Intl legal bodies, such as IBA's Human Rights Institute & LAWASIA, should step up to support more trials in HK being monitored & reported on.
rsf.org/en/hong-kong-r…

The manual, which lists 10 rules that Buddhist clergy should follow, also forbids disrupting the process of recognizing the Dalai Lama’s reincarnation, said the source from inside #Tibet who requested anonymity for safety reasons.

#EkparAsat (Ekber Eset) was detained 8 years ago after participating in the State Department’s prestigious International Visitor’s Leadership Program. The Chairs call on Secretary Antony Blinken to redouble Department of State efforts to obtain his release. More case info @ ppdcecc.gov/ppd?id=result&…

“I have never met [Jimmy] Lai Chee-ying,” Li said in Cantonese

Marc Corlett, one of Lai’s defence lawyers, asked the witness if he had any communication with the mogul via phone, video calls, online messages & other means.

“None whatsoever,” Li said.

hongkongfp.com/2024/04/10/hon…

#丁家喜许志永被宣判一周年 一年前的今天，我彻夜未眠，接受来自世界各地的记者对志永和家喜因一次聚会而被重判14年和12年的采访。一年过去，当局成功把他俩送进了监狱，阻止了人们再听到他俩的声音。而一年前联合国高专办的声明明确指出：毫无疑问，丁许应当被立即释放，而且他们根本就不应当被羁押！

河南维权人士 #邢望力 今日刑满，他于2021年5月12日被以 #寻衅滋事罪 刑拘，2022年4月21日被以 #诽谤罪 判刑2年11个月。
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Ultimate 男el…

无国界记者组织 （RSF）发表声明，4月10日其一名代表抵达香港机场时，遭到长时间扣押、搜查和审问，且被禁止入境。这是RSF人员首次在香港受到这种待遇。rsf.org/en/hong-kong-r…

这名代表是RSF驻台北的倡导官员（Advocacy Officer）亚历山德拉· 别拉科夫斯卡（Aleksandra…

Am curious to what extent Ottawa erected line of defence built around premise main interference threat would come from Russia.
Then it came from China - according to CSIS.
As inquiry learned, Ottawa has no lines of communication w/ TenCent, owner of WeChat.

#丁家喜许志永被宣判一周年 非常感谢美国国会议员，前常设情报特别委员会主席，托马斯兰托斯人权委员会委员Adam Schiff 先生为丁家喜许志永被强加罪名，秘密宣判一周年发表声明, 表达对丁许极力倡导公民自由和建立政府问责机制的赞赏与支持！指出丁许无罪，应被立即释放！schiff.house.gov/news/press-rel…

In 2003-04, Dr Xu Zhiyong spent an academic year at Yale's China Law Center. He was enchanted, but everything he saw and heard pressed on his resolve to return and make changes - not that he had ever considered staying. The 7th essay in A Beautiful China. chinachange.org/2024/04/06/a-b…

Hong Kong detains for six hours and deports a Reporters Without Borders officer arriving there to monitor news publisher Jimmy Lai's national security trial. rsf.org/en/hong-kong-r…

He Xuefeng, scholar of rural China, writes that elder suicide is still all too prevalent in Chinese countryside, for the most part spurred by elder's worries that they will become economic burden on their relatives. Not a new phenomenon, but a pressing one.