(Seoul) – Chinese authorities since 2024 have forcibly returned at least 406 people to North Korea, where they are at grave risk of persecution and ill-treatment, Human Rights Watch said today.

(New York) – Chinese authorities on October 10-11, 2025, arrested nearly 30 pastors, preachers, and church members of the unofficial Zion Protestant Church in seven cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, and Zhejiang, Human Rights Watch said today.

On October 13, a court outside Paris will put on trial Dr. Dilnur Reyhan, a prominent French-Uyghur scholar and activist, and the president of the European Uyghur Institute, for the criminal offense of “degradation of property belonging to others.”

Click to expand Image Chinese artists the Gao Brothers, Zhen and Qiang, with some of their "Miss Mao" pieces that feature life-sized, Pinocchio-nosed sculptures of Mao Zedong in their studio in Beijing, October 16, 2007. © 2007 David Grey/Reuters...

(New York) – A newly proposed law in China would provide a broad legal framework to justify existing repression and force assimilation of minority populations throughout the country and abroad, Human Rights Watch said today.

Chinese authorities should immediately and unconditionally release Zhang Yadi, an advocate for Tibetan rights who had been an international student in France, Human Rights Watch said today. If convicted under article 103(2) of China’s Criminal Law, which prohibits “inciting others to...

Former lawmaker and veteran pro-democracy activist Au Kam San during an interview in Macao, October 7, 2024. © 2024 AP Photo/Bertha Wang (New York) – Macao authorities should unconditionally release the former lawmaker and veteran...

Click to expand Image Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese (L) with the President of the People's Republic of China, Xi Jinping, in Bali, Indonesia, November 15th, 2022. © 2022 James Brickwood/Sydney Morning Herald via Getty Images On July 12,...

The Chinese government is persecuting and silencing lawyers who challenge official abuses a decade after a major crackdown on lawyers defending people’s rights.

Five Years under National Security Law, Rights Erased, New Ideological Controls

Click to expand Image The Delegation of the European Union to China hosted a reception to mark the 50th anniversary of EU-China relations and to celebrate Europe Day, May 6, 2025. © 2025 European Union This year marks some...

Activists and Diaspora Keep Memory Alive, Press for Democratic Rule

Activists Urge General Assembly to Establish New Investigative Body

Unlawful Attempt to Control Succession of Tibetan Buddhist Leaders

Click to expand Image Bottled water is loaded onto a boat for delivery to another island in Malé, Maldives, December 18, 2019. © 2019 Carl Court/Getty Images Marginalized island communities in the Maldives affected by climate change face limited...

The new Pope, Leo XIV, should direct an urgent review of the Vatican’s 2018 agreement with the Chinese government that allows Beijing to appoint bishops for government-approved houses of worship, Human Rights Watch said today. He should also press the government to end the persecution of underground churches, clergy, and worshipers.

Below is a question-by-question compilation of responses by the Australian Labor Party (ALP), the Liberal National Coalition and the Australian Greens. The Liberal National Coalition did not respond under each individual question but responded under relevant thematic subheadings. Human...

A Tibetan Buddhist monk and a woman share a mobile phone outside the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, on June 1, 2021.

(Taipei) – The Vietnamese government should investigate the death under suspicious circumstances of a senior Tibetan lama, Humkar Dorje Rinpoche, in Ho Chi Minh City on March...

Click to expand Image Tibetan monks in exile in India take part in a peace march commemorating the 1959 Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule, near Dharamsala, March 10, 2024. © 2024 Sanjay Baid/AFP via Getty Images Today, March 10,...

Click to expand Image An immigration detention center in Bangkok, Thailand, February 26, 2025. © 2025 Jerry Harmer/AP Photo (Bangkok) – The Thai government violated domestic and international law by forcibly sending at least 40 Uyghur men to China,...

Click to expand Image A person holds a Chinese passport at the Zabaikalsk international checkpoint on the Russian-Chinese border, Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia, October 17, 2023.  © Evgeny Yepanchintsev / Sputnik via AP (Taipei) – The Chinese government has increasingly imposed...

Click to expand Image A security guard outside the Shangri-La Key School in Kardze prefecture, Sichuan province, China, September 5, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo/Andy Wong The Chinese authorities, as part of their suppression of Tibetans’ basic rights, have...

Click to expand Image A Chinese police officer for border inspection on duty at the Khunjerab Pass in northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, January 2, 2025. © 2025 Hu Huhu/Xinhua via Getty Images (New York) – The Chinese government is maintaining severe...

Click to expand Image Detainees behind cell bars at the police Immigration Detention Center in Bangkok, Thailand, January 21, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit (Bangkok) – A group of 48 Uyghur men who have been held for over...

Click to expand Image Elsa Wu, foster mother of activist Hendrick Lui, was taken into a police van outside the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts building after the sentencing of 45 pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong, November 19, 2024.  ©...

Click to expand Image St. Joseph's Church, also known as Wangfujing Catholic Church, in Beijing, China, October 22, 2020. © 2020 Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images (Rome) – The Vatican’s renewal of its 2018 agreement with the Chinese government should be...

Click to expand Image A guard stands in a tower on the perimeter of the Number 3 Detention Center in Dabancheng in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on April 23, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein (Sydney) – The Australian...

Click to expand Image Makeshift shelters for Sudanese refugees who have fled from Darfur, Sudan to Borota, Chad. © 2023 Zohra Bensemra/Reuters United Nations and African Union member states should begin planning the deployment of a mission to protect civilians in Sudan,...

Click to expand Image Uyghur filmmaker Ikram Nurmehmet. © Private (New York) –The Chinese authorities should immediately release the Uyghur filmmaker and director Ikram Nurmehmet, who was sentenced to six and a half years in prison after being convicted on...