Human Rights Day: China places lawyers, activists under house arrest

Beijing: Chinese authorities continue to dominate over dissidents, rights lawyers and activists as well as their families by putting them under house arrest.

Chinese Foreign Ministry summons UK Ambassador

Beijing/UNI: The Chinese Foreign Ministry informed on Tuesday that it had summoned the UK Ambassador to Beijing and lodged a protest against the UK's decision to impose sanctions on Chinese officials for alleged human rights violations against Uyghur people in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region.

There will be repercussions for China: Joe Biden

Washington: US President Joe Biden has targeted China and said Beijing will have to face repercussions over human rights abuses.

Rights group feels China is witnessing global resistance to deepening repression

The Chinese government’s heightened repression in Hong Kong and Xinjiang are emblematic of the worsening human rights situation under President Xi Jinping, Human Rights Watch said in its World Report 2021.

Uyghur rights group asks UN to immediately strip China of its participatory status at UNHRC

Washington: Expressing concern over the manner in which China treats the minority community,  a Uyghur rights group has urged the United Nations to immediately strip Beijing of its participatory status at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC).

Chinese government poses global threat to human rights: Human Rights Watch

New York/IBNS: The Chinese government is carrying out an intense attack on the global system for defending human rights, Kenneth Roth, executive director at Human Rights Watch, said on Wednesday in releasing Human Rights Watch’s World Report 2020.