A court in China sentenced the prominent human rights lawyer Xie Yang to five years in prison on March 23, 2026 on ...

Confronted with what he calls a “commercial tsunami” from China and growing unpredictability from the United States, French ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday reported on the threats to rights created by China's new cybercrime bill and urged the concerned governments to press China to scrap the draft law. China's ...

The U.N.'s top human rights body has given an updated assessment two years after its damning review of the human rights situation in China. Ravina Shamdasani, a spokesperson for the Office of the High ...

Human rights organizations sounded the alarm on Tuesday over the deteriorating health of Chinese legal scholar and human rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong, who has been on a hunger strike for nearly a month to ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Dozens of non-government groups monitoring dissent, human and labour rights in China have laid off staff after being forced to suspend work following a freeze on foreign aid by U.S ...

China approved what it called an "ethnic unity" law on Thursday, which rights advocates warn could further marginalise minority groups such as the Uyghurs.While it calls for "strengthening ties" with ...

“Sitting in a prison cell waiting for daybreak”: this is how Chinese legal activist Xu Zhiyong described the prospect of enduring a 14-year prison sentence, handed down by a Shandong court in 2023. Xu ...

Canada’s prime minister chooses pragmatism in a turbulent world, which means doing business with countries that do not share ...