china

July 17, 2013

New briefing shows Chinese legal refoms are failing

A new briefing from Amnesty reveals that the Chinese authorities are still illegally holding detainees in custody and refusing them access to their lawyers and families.
July 10, 2013

Health hazards in China’s denim factories

Campaigners have demanded action from governments and companies to end the use of sandblasting and other unsafe processes in the manufacture of denim jeans.
January 4, 2013

Chinese writer’s death in prison a ‘bitter blow’ for freedom

The reported death of a celebrated Uighur writer in a Chinese prison is an indictment of freedom of expression, Amnesty International says.
January 3, 2013

Writer's death in prison 'shameful indictment' of Chinese government

The reported death of a celebrated Uighur writer in a Chinese prison is a shameful indictment of the Chinese government’s notion of justice, says Amnesty.
November 25, 2012

Ecumenical and evangelical tributes as China's Bishop Ting dies

Bishop K. H. Ting, a pioneer of the official post-denominational Protestant Church in China, has died on 22 November 2012, at the age of 97.
November 6, 2012

Chinese women’s rights activist sent to labour camp

A prominent Chinese women’s rights activist, Mao Hengfeng, has been sentenced to one-and-a-half years in a labour camp, amid protests.
October 14, 2012

Rise in violent land evictions fuelling discontent in China

Violent, forced evictions in China are on the rise as local authorities seek to offset huge debts by seizing and then selling off land in suspect deals.
October 1, 2012

What China teaches us about ourselves

Several news stories coincided recently to graphically illustrate the terrible inequalities in our global village.

In London, and in other rich cities around the world, people queued for days to be the first to buy the new Apple iPhone 5. Not everybody was queuing to buy for themselves. Some people (plebs?) were being paid hundreds of pounds to stand in line for days on behalf of other, presumably richer individuals, who had better things to do with their time.
August 12, 2012

Hong Kong protests against Chinese education curriculum

Some 90,000 Hong Kong people took to the streets recently to urge the government to withdraw a controversial new Chinese education curriculum.
June 15, 2012

Norwegian official denied visa for church meeting in China

Former Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik, a Lutheran pastor, has been denied a visa to China for a World Council of Churches meeting.