Human Rights Violations News and Updates
China is arbitrarily detaining an estimated one million Muslims in Xinjiang, in what the authorities call “political education camps.” Millions more are subjected to intrusive mass surveillance.
Following unprecedented global attention on Saudi Arabia’s discriminatory male guardianship system, which restricts women’s rights to travel (among other things), Saudi authorities undertook reform.
Professor David Kotz discusses how the U.S.'s hardened trade stance has nothing to do with human rights, despite new reports of the massive human rights violations of the Uighurs, a Muslim minority in western China.
Human rights in China under Xi Jinping ‘worst since Tiananmen crackdown
Saudi Arabia's human rights record has been called into question after the news that 47 people were executed in one day.
The country remains a member of the United Nations human rights council despite making extensive use of the death penalty and carrying out dozens of public executions.
The Chinese government has reportedly detained more than a million Muslims in reeducation camps. Most of the people who have been arbitrarily detained are Uighur, a predominantly Turkic-speaking ethnic group primarily from China’s
northwestern region of Xinjiang.
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Hong Kong
The pro democracy movement in Hong Kong has been met with violent and repressive retaliation by the Chinese government. Amnesty International Reports "Our researchers have documented unnecessary and excessive use of force, including tear gas, batons and other less-lethal weapons, used by police, on the largely peaceful protesters; using vague charges to arrest and prosecute peaceful protesters; retaliatory violence against arrested persons in custody; and police’s lack of response when protesters were facing violent attacks by counter-protesters and other people.
This has happened both during the pro-democracy Umbrella Movement in 2014 and the Extradition Bill protests that began in March this year. The Hong Kong authorities have used aggressive policing on occasions when they deem the protests are crossing the “red-line”. This “red line” is set by the Chinese government, and includes factors like advocating for democracy, challenging the Chinese government or endangering “national sovereignty and security"
