🚨 #HK# customs seized 60 books prisoner support group #WaitingBird# imported from Taiwan, citing suspected “seditious intention,” with no explanation. It follows a wave of independent bookshop closures and growing concerns over #FreeSpeech# in HK. 👉

🚨 Guangzhou authorities have held labor activist #FengRui# since Sept 14 on a reported “picking quarrels” charge, interrogating him up to 3x a day, even when too sick to walk. His health has worsened, raising concerns over coerced evidence. 👉

🚨 October 17 marked the 11th anniversary of Swedish publisher #GuiMinhai# 's initial enforced disappearance by 🇨🇳 authorities in Thailand. His current whereabouts and wellbeing are unknown. 👉

🇹🇭 #Thailand# I remain deeply concerned about Chinese journalist and human rights defender Bai Zhaodong, who remains detained in Thailand despite having served his sentence for immigration-related offences. A hearing is scheduled for Friday, 9 October, to challenge the lawfulness of his continued detention. I call for his release and will closely follow the hearing. Thailand must also uphold the principle of non-refoulement and ensure he is not transferred to China, where he may face persecution, torture or other irreparable harm. @ThaimissionGVA @UN_SPExperts

Jia Pin (贾榀), an activist who had been disappeared for four years, reemerges saying that he had been sentenced to four years in prison. Of course, that’s good news, but worrying (and suspicious) that someone could be gone for so long without a trace.

🚨 #EnforcedDisappearance# is an extreme form of arbitrary detention. 🇨🇳 authorities gamble with the lives of everyone they disappear. This Sept., the #UN# human rights chief and member states have a chance to challenge #Beijing# 's impunity. 🔗

🇨🇳: Authorities detained poet and #Tiananmen# student movement leader #Jifeng# at his home near #Beijing# on Aug 20. He was reportedly taken back to his home province of Guizhou, and there's been no word since. 🔗

#FreeGaoZhen# GaoZhen has the right to freedom of artistic expression. The use of a contrived, retroactively applied law and a closed trial underscores serious due process violations.

#FreeGaoZhen# “Gao has been prosecuted for conduct that has never been criminal, and his family has endured collective punishment at the hands of the authorities, and that is criminal.” said @SophieDRich, Co-Ed of @CHRDnet.

🚨 Court in Hunan denies #FairTrial# to journalist and rights defender #LiYuanfeng#. His trial took place Aug 13 — but the Yiyang City Procuratorate blocked his lawyers from even copying his own case files, invoking "state secrets." 👉

🚨 An Anhui court sentenced 3 Christian church leaders — Zhang Sen, Chang Shun, Ma Tao — to 1.4–1.7 yrs for "organizing illegal gatherings": prayer meetings & Bible study. Real "crime": refusing to join the state-led Three-Self church, where #CCP# ideology is core. 👇

🇨🇳 #China# I am deeply concerned about the detention of HRDr Zhang Yi, arrested after showing a photo of the Dalai Lama during a visit to Sera Monastery in Lhasa. He remains detained on charges of “inciting separatism.” Peacefully displaying the image of a religious leader cannot constitute a threat to national security. Separatism legislation must not be used to criminalize the exercise of freedom of expression, religion or belief, or legitimate human rights work. I urge the Chinese authorities to review Zhang Yi’s detention and to release him immediately, given the serious concerns that his detention may be linked to the peaceful exercise of his right to defend human rights. Pending his release, his safety, due process guarantees, and access to his family and legal counsel must be fully respected. @ChinaMissionGva @UN_SPExperts

🔔 Update: #Uyghur# singer-songwriter #YasharShohret# has reportedly reunited with his family after completing a 3-year sentence for performing an elegy for #Urumqi# fire victims in 2022. via

🔔 #ZhaoHaitong# has 1 year left in the 14-yr sentence a #XUAR# court handed him for pro-democracy activism and helping Uyghurs defend their rights. In Feb 2025, 5 @UN_SPExperts urged 🇨🇳 govt to disclose his health, treatment, and access to family & lawyers.

🚨Update: #Lhasa# authorities formally arrested activist #ZhangYi# on July 28 under the charge of "inciting separatism." He was detained after showing a photo of the #DalaiLama# to a Tibetan at Sera Monastery. 🔗

🔴 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. 🔗

🚨 #China# authorities took activist #ShenAibin# in for questioning at 11am on Aug 4 — he has still not been released. He had endured residential surveillance since Nov 2025 before making bail on May 30, 2026.

🔴 @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. 🔗

📰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. 👉