GENEVA—Michelle Bachelet, once a political detainee under Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and a doctor for tortured children, pledged to be the champion of victims when she became U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights in 2018. But as her tenure ends on Wednesday, family members and advocates for those caught up in China’s repression of dissent…
UN Rights Chief’s Tenure Ends in Disappointment for China Activists
September 1, 2022
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How China’s Solar Domination Challenges the World
Commentary To appreciate how China’s technological authoritarianism threatens the world, consider solar energy. What’s seen as a clean, modern and relatively high-tech alternative to fossil fuels has become another example of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) strong-arm approach to bullying other countries and dominating an industry. Worse yet, many American investors are willfully blind to…
Human Rights Is the ‘Canary in a Coal Mine’: Nadine Maenza; China’s Human Rights Violations
August 26, 2022
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We take a look at China’s human rights violations. I speak with Katrina Lantos Swett, president of the Lantos Foundation, and Nadine Maenza, president of the International Religious Freedom Secretariat. The two human rights champions discuss the crimes of forced organ harvesting committed by the Chinese Communist Party against prisoners of conscience, the genocide against…
Search for Gao Zhisheng, ‘China’s Conscience,’ Five Years On
Gao Zhisheng, “China’s conscience,” was forcibly disappeared while under house arrest in 2017. It’s been five years and his wife, Geng He, continues her search for the brave Chinese human rights lawyer. Geng recently shared her thoughts about the search for Gao with the Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times. She said she appreciated…
Wife of Disappeared Chinese Rights Lawyer Vows to Continue Searching For Him, 5 Years On
Gao Zhisheng, “China’s conscience,” was forcibly disappeared while under house arrest in 2017. It’s been five years and his wife, Geng He, continues her search for the brave Chinese human rights lawyer. Geng recently shared her thoughts about the search for Gao with the Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times. She said she appreciated…
Fears of Popular Coup as Terrorist Alliance Has Nigerian Capital Under Siege
JOS, Nigeria—Traumatized citizens in Nigeria’s sprawling capital of Abuja are on the verge of a citizens’ revolt, according to a defense consultant who has worked for the Nigerian military. David Otto, a London-based military expert tells The Epoch Times that a series of stunning hammer blows by a coalition of jihadist insurgents and radicalized bandits…
Family Intercepted as Rights Lawyer Tried Behind Closed Door in China’s Northwest
“I am witnessing a crime scene,” said Chen Zijuan, wife of detained human rights lawyer Chang Weiping, in a video posted on Twitter. Chen made her video plea after she and other family members were blocked by police from attending her husband’s closed trial in northwestern Shaanxi Province on Tuesday. “I’m so sorry that I…
An Activist’s Arrest in London Shows Changing Nature of Chinese Persecution Abroad
Commentary Australian human rights activist Drew Pavlou was arrested in dramatic fashion outside the Chinese embassy in London late last week. A media storm is now brewing. On July 21, Drew, an outspoken critic of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), most often in his home country of Australia, arrived outside the Chinese embassy in London….
Are We Free By Right or Not?
The COVID-19 response has raised questions regarding freedom in Western societies that we thought a few years ago were settled. Is freedom something we are allowed, or granted? Or is it something we are born with, which can therefore only be removed? What is the status, now or in the future, of a child born…
Rabbi Abraham Cooper: Communism Is Threatened by Individuality
July 22, 2022
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I speak with Rabbi Abraham Cooper, who was elected as vice chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. We discuss his experience seeing the fall of the Soviet Union, what the concerns are in China when it comes to human rights, and his last trip to Hong Kong. We also look into…
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