Category: social control

US Lawmakers, Rights Group Criticize IOC Over Talks With Chinese Tennis Player

U.S. lawmakers and a number of rights groups are criticizing the International Olympics Committee (IOC) after its President Thomas Bach took part in a phone call with missing Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai. “It has been disturbing to see the IOC take statements from CCP [Chinese Communist Party] propagandists at face value since Peng Shuai’s…


US Lawmakers, Rights Groups Criticize IOC Over Talks With Chinese Tennis Player

U.S. lawmakers and a number of rights groups are criticizing the International Olympics Committee (IOC) after its President Thomas Bach took part in a phone call with missing Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai. “It has been disturbing to see the IOC take statements from CCP [Chinese Communist Party] propagandists at face value since Peng Shuai’s…


WTA: Chinese Tennis Star’s Call With IOC Is Not Enough

Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai’s video call with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) doesn’t address or alleviate the Women’s Tennis Association’s (WTA) concern about her well-being, the WTA said on Nov.22. Global concerns about the former doubles world number one tennis player mounted following a rare, public sexual assault allegation she made against a retired…


US Holocaust Museum Says China Boosting Uyghur Repression

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum says it has compiled evidence of increasing government repression against Uyghur Muslims in China’s western Xinjiang region. In a new report released on Nov. 9, the museum’s Center for the Prevention of Genocide says there is now “a reasonable basis” to believe that previously alleged crimes against humanity versus the…


2 Recent CCP Appointments Trigger Concerns Over Rights Abuses in China

Amid the Chinese regime’s ramping up of its largest leadership reshuffle before the 20th National Congress, the recent appointments of two Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) cadres aroused great concern in the international community over China’s worsening human rights situation. The National Congress is theoretically the highest body of the CCP and is held once every…


Washington ‘Deeply Concerned’ About Health of Jailed Chinese Citizen Journalist, Calls for Immediate Release

The U.S. State Department said on Nov. 8 it is “deeply concerned” about the deteriorating health of citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, who has been undertaking a hunger strike yet force-fed during her detention for reporting on the early days of the global pandemic in China. “According to multiple reports citing her relatives’ comments, Ms. Zhang…


Washington ‘Deeply Concerned’ About Health of Jailed Chinese Citizen Journalist Who Covered Wuhan Outbreak

The U.S. State Department said on Nov. 8 it is “deeply concerned” about the deteriorating health of citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, who has been on a prolonged hunger strike and has been force-fed while imprisoned for reporting on the early days of the pandemic in China. “According to multiple reports citing her relatives’ comments, Ms….


Petitioners and Rights Activists Targeted Ahead of Key Communist Party Meeting in Beijing

Chinese police hunted then expelled multiple prominent dissidents from Beijing in the lead up to a key meeting of the ruling Communist Party, which is held from Nov. 8 to Nov. 11. The four-day closed-door meeting, also known as the sixth plenum of the 19th Central Committee, usually takes place once a year in the…


Chinese Provinces Start Inoculating Children Ages Three to Eleven, Parents Worried

The Chinese regime’s top health apparatus announced on Oct. 30 that the COVID-19 vaccine will be administered to children between three and eleven years old, and some parents have expressed concern about the vaccine orders. “[We] should provide active guidance to all eligible groups between three and eleven years old to get vaccinated, as long…


Parents Worried Over China’s Vaccine Orders on Children

The Chinese regime’s top health apparatus announced on Oct. 30 that the COVID-19 vaccine will be administered to children between three and eleven years old, and some parents have expressed concern about the vaccine orders. “[We] should provide active guidance to all eligible groups between three and eleven years old to get vaccinated, as long…