Sophie Richardson
@SophieDRich
Co-Exec Dir, Chinese Human Rights Defenders. 2024 Visiting Scholar, CDDRL, Stanford. Frm China Director, HRW. Views expressed are my own. RTs not endorsement.
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“When the guards move him around the prison, they put up tarpaulins so that he cannot be seen. ‘It’s like they’re trying to make him disappear,’ one of Lai’s supporters remarked to me.” #FreeJimmyLai#!
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16 years ago today--feels like it was yesterday. Wrongfully detained #China# #humanrights# defender #LiuXiaobo# won the @NobelPrize in 2010, then died in state custody in 2017 w/o adequate medical care. His legacy, and that of Charter 08, live on. @CHRDnet
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And as for redressing the vast #humanrights# abuses—including #atrocitycrmes—over# which #China# govt official #MaXingrui# presided…?
