📣NEW
#China
Media Bulletin!
September issue highlights: Beijing’s economic censorship, Ilham Tohti has been jailed for a decade, Beijing-linked disinformation campaign, Activists tried behind closed doors, Hong Kong academic freedom in decline
Taiwan has one of the freest political environments in Asia, scoring 38/40 for political rights and 56/60 for civil liberties for a total of 94/100 in our
#FreedomInTheWorld
2023 report.
Details via
@Freedomhouse
👇👇👇
🇨🇳People in China frequently engage in public protest, despite risks to their personal safety. On June 6,
@freedomhouse
will convene experts to discuss factors behind such dissent, differences across communities, and what it means for the future
Sign up👉
📢
@freedomhouse
’s
#FreedomOnTheNet
2023 is OUT!
#China
remains the world's worst abuser of internet freedom for the 9th year in a row, with highly oppressive conditions, scoring 9 out of 100, and being rated as "Not Free," according to the report covering 70 countries. (1/6)
Today marks one year since human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng & his wife, activist Xu Yan, were arrested in China.
We proudly join
@amnesty
,
@SafeguardDefend
,
@CHRDnet
and 20+ other civil society orgs in demanding their immediate & unconditional release.
Latest updates on media and internet censorship from Hong Kong – Beijing overrules local court, tighter crowdfunding controls, app censorship and VPN bans.
Details in Freedom House’s new Hong Kong Media Bulletin
Welcome to the new Twitter account from the China research team at Freedom House! Follow us for the latest updates on China, Hong Kong, and Beijing's global influence.
Please subscribe to our monthly China Media Bulletin newsletter:
Join a lively discussion on Freedom House's latest research on Beijing's media influence and democratic resilience in Southeast Asia. At 8am NYC time | 7pm Jakarta time | 8pm Manila & KL on Wednesday, Sep 28.
@CamilleElemia
@ThatBenLoh
@ZulfikarRakhmat
The UNHCR today failed to vote to start holding the Chinese govt accountable for its atrocities against Uyghurs. In a vote to hold a debate on Xinjiang, 17 countries voted yes, 19 no and 11 abstained. (1/4)
Beijing's campaign to influence media outlets and news consumers around the world is becoming more aggressive and harder to detect.
Our 2022
#BGMI
report outlines key tactics observed in 30 countries under study from 2019-2021.
Learn more:
👉
Democracies must take urgent action to protect the diaspora and exiled dissidents from the Chinese govt’s cross-border intimidation efforts.
Freedom House's
@gorokhovskaia
and
@__datt
on how to resist the CCP's campaign of transnational repression.
PRESS RELEASE
Beijing time 19:30, Monday 13 May 2024
So far, we have not received any confirmation that
#ZhangZhan
has left the prison and is home with her family.
We understand that Zhang Zhan’s family have been under enormous pressure and warned severely not to give media
Freedom House joins over 40 other groups to call on the Chinese authorities to stop the violent crackdown and arrests of peaceful protesters and respect the rights to freedom of expression, assembly, and the press.
Wishing everyone a Happy Year of the Rabbit.
But let’s not forget the many, many families in China separated from loved ones because of the CCP’s unjust persecution of free speech, religion, and other basic rights.
Imagine if your family member was taken hostage because you spoke the truth. On Sep 10, 2018, Dr.
#GulshanAbbas
, now 62, was forcibly disappeared by the CCP in retaliation for her sister
@RushanAbbas
' activism.
For six years, Dr. Abbas has endured imprisonment for a crime she
#China
is arguably home to the world’s largest population of political prisoners, including human rights defenders, journalists, and online dissenters, who are unjustly jailed for exercising their basic freedoms.
On Intl Day of Political Prisoners, we demand to
#FreeThemAll
.
REPORT LAUNCH:
@freedomhouse
's newest report — Beijing's Global Media Influence — debuts Sept 8. The report maps how the Chinese Communist Party is influencing news coverage in 30 democracies worldwide & how those countries are responding.
RSVP⬇️
@freedomhouse
joined
@CHRDnet
& 30+ intl orgs in condemning the
#CCP
's enforced disappearances of activists, Uyghurs, Tibetans, and others. We urge the Chinese gov't to halt this practice and release all those, including human rights lawyer
#GaoZhisheng
, missing now for 6 yrs.
NEW: August 13 marks the 6th anniversary of the disappearance of
#GaoZhisheng
.
Ahead of this, NGOs are calling on the Chinese government to
#FreeGaoZhisheng
and end the use of enforced disappearances (affecting HRDs,
#Uyghurs
,
#Tibetans
, and many others)
Sunday's sham selection of hardliner John Lee as the next Chief Executive of Hong Kong reinforces Beijing's continued crushing of political rights in the territory
In 2022 edition of Freedom in the World - Hong Kong only scored 10/40 for political rights.
Despite failure of UN human rights chief to investigate human rights violations in China, evidence of Xinjiang abuses keeps growing as civil society, victims, scholars, and media do
@mbachelet
's job.
Details via
#China
Media Bulletin
For
#WorldPressFreedomDay
, we recognize all of the courageous journalists and ordinary citizens in
#China
,
#HongKong
, and around the world who sacrifice so much to report on what is happening on the ground and speak truth to power.
Hong Kong's political rights and civil liberties have declined dramatically in recent years, scoring 10/40 in political rights and 32/60 in civil liberties for a total of 42/100 in our
#FreedomInTheWorld
2023 report.
Details via
@Freedomhouse
👇👇👇
Hot off the press! The October issue of the China Media Bulletin looks at Beijing's global propaganda on Uyghurs, 20th Congress censorship, and the CCP's brazen transnational repression.
🇭🇰 June 30 marked the fourth anniversary of the passage of Hong Kong's National Security Law.
Here to explain this legislation's devastating impact on fundamental freedoms in Hong Kong is
@FH_China
's
@Yaqiu
.
Learn more:
Hong Kong Is Unrecognizable after Two Years under the National Security Law
@freedomhouse
's
@__datt
looks at 5 ways the law has deepened authoritarianism in HK as conditions to worsen as John Lee takes power next week.
This Thursday,
@freedomhouse
's newest report — Beijing's Global Media Influence — comes out. The report maps how the Chinese Communist Party is influencing news coverage in 30 democracies worldwide & how those countries are responding.
RSVP⬇️
🗣️
@freedomhouse
's
@Yaqiu
is testifying in front of
@committeeonccp
regarding the CCP's strategy to shape global information space.
Watch live on Thursday, November 30 at 7:15pm ET ⬇️
BREAKING: The Select Committee on the CCP will hold a hearing titled “Discourse Power: The CCP’s Strategy to Shape the Global Information Space” this Thursday at 7:15 pm E.T.
Tune in at the link below 👇
Amid high youth unemployment, Chinese graduates are sharing unconventional graduation photos online (see photo👇) —with some going viral—to express frustration with dim job prospects and official efforts to downplay the issue
Via
#China
Media Bulletin:
“Repression at Georgetown: Protecting Chinese students' right to free expression”
A panel discussion to be held on February 21, 7:30 pm, to support Chinese students’ rights to free expression, at Healey Family Student Center by the Georgetown Asian American Students Association.
Our new report
#BGMI
explores how the CCP exerts influence in democratic countries worldwide and how those countries are responding to and pushing back against this influence.
Here are some key takeaways⬇️🧵 (1/6)
Out now! The July issue of the
#China
Media Bulletin looks at how democracies can counter CCP transnational repression, COVID-19 app misuse, and the barring of Hong Kong’s press from handover and inauguration ceremonies.
Details via
@freedomhouse