The death of Cao Shunli
China doesn’t like criticism. In September 2013 a Chinese Human Rights lawyer, Cao Shunli, was arrested when trying to fly to Geneva to attend China’s last periodic review by the […]
China’s Organ Harvesting
A study calling for the retraction of Chinese scientific papers on organ transplantation because of unethical procurement of organs was published last week in the medical journal BMJ Open. Many […]
Wang Quanzhang
The prominent Chinese rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang has just been sentenced to four and a half years in prison for “subversion of state power.” His crime was defending political activists, […]
The erasure of Xinjiang
IS CHINA trying to erase the identity of the Uyghur people? Of the 10m Uyghurs in Xinjiang province, western China, around one in eight is now interned in a re-education […]
China, a terrible suspicion
Back in 2006, allegations first came to light that prisoners of conscience were being killed on demand for organ transplants throughout China, but in 2015 China said they had transitioned […]
