🔴 27-year-old programmer #NiuTengyu# has spent nearly 7 years behind bars for maintaining a politically sensitive website, targeted by 🇨🇳 govt prosecution. Family hired 16 lawyers, still fighting the appeal. @UN_SPExperts urge #Beijing# to remedy this.
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🔴 @UN_SPExperts have ruled that 🇨🇳 govt's detention of computer programmer #NiuTengyu# is "arbitrary." #Beijing# has held him for nearly seven years and his sentence doesn't end until 2033.
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📰Op-ed: @volker_turk just won 4 more years as @UNHumanRights chief. @SophieDRich, Co-Ed of @CHRDnet, says he now has no excuse: here are 4 concrete steps to redress 🇨🇳's deepening repression inside and beyond its borders.
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🚨 The #Guangdong# High Court has repeatedly blocked #NiuTengyu# 's lawyer from accessing his case files. Niu, a web administrator, was 20 when his prosecution began in 2019 and has since endured #torture# and mistreatment in detention.
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🚨 #HongKong#: "Unclear red lines" have prompted a bookstore to announce its closure.
Booksellers at two other independent bookshops were arrested by #NationalSecurity# police earlier this year.
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💡Imprisoned journalist and rights defender #ZhangZhan# has been named recipient of the #LiuXiaobo# Award, announced July 13 in Germany. Zhang still has over 2 years left on her sentence for her activism and online speech.
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🔔 Detained church member #WuQiuyu# reports ill-treatment and lack of medical care since her detention in October 2025. She is among nine #ZionChurch# members facing prosecution for their faith.
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