Category: rights

Video: Fighting to Uphold the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution—Interview with Mike Fahner

Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid is currently before the Supreme Court. It’s a case about upholding the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution and protecting property owners’ rights. We speak to Mike Fahner, owner of Cedar Point Nursery, about challenging California’s union access regulation and protecting the Fifth Amendment. These stories and more in this episode…


US Condemns China at UN Rights Forum for Abuse of Uyghurs, Tibetans

GENEVA—The United States on Friday condemned China’s abuse of ethnic and religious minorities, including what it called “crimes against humanity and genocide” in Xinjiang against Muslim Uyghurs and severe restrictions in Tibet. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who meets his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Alaska next week, is due to raise the treatment…


Jailed Chinese Lawyer Yu Wensheng Wins Human Rights Award

GENEVA—A jailed Chinese lawyer who defended other human rights lawyers arrested in a sweeping crackdown against activism has won an international human rights award, the jury said on Thursday. Yu Wensheng was arrested in Jan. 2018, a day after publishing an open letter calling for reforms. He is serving a four-year sentence announced in June…