Human Rights Lawyer Emma Reilly reveals that the UN is actively sharing the names of Uyghur dissidents with the Chinese Government, telling Maajid Nawaz the actions of the UN here are 'criminal.' @MaajidNawaz

this is genuinely wild. how is the press covering the trial locked out while the person is still inside

🚨 NEW: A secret camera has been discovered in a ceiling panel in a sensitive Government building where the decision was made to approve the new Chinese embassy [@theipaper]

If you criticize the Chinese government from overseas, your parents can lose their pensions, your siblings can lose their jobs, and your children can be barred from universities. This is not a side effect of CCP policy. It is the policy. Human rights organizations Safeguard Defenders and Chinese Human Rights Defenders have documented what they describe as a systematic revival of lianzu, China's ancient collective punishment system, adapted for the Xi Jinping era. When an overseas dissident speaks out, the consequences flow to everyone who shares their blood inside China. The documented forms are specific. Parents and siblings lose jobs in state enterprises or government positions. Family businesses face sudden, relentless tax audits with no resolution. Pensions and social benefits are frozen without formal charges. Children, nieces, and nephews receive political black marks on their records that block university admission, passport applications, and the political vetting required for any stable career in China. The cases are real and named. Dong Jianbiao, father of activist Dong Yaoqiong, who threw ink on Xi Jinping's portrait in a 2018 video, was detained after his daughter's act and died in prison under circumstances that remain unexplained. Activist He Fangmei's young children, including a newborn, were placed in psychiatric facilities or disappeared from contact after she continued speaking out. Wang Quanzhang, a lawyer arrested in the 2015 crackdown on human rights attorneys, had his child face school difficulties while he was held incommunicado for years. In December 2023, China's own Legislative Affairs Commission quietly acknowledged that some local governments had been applying collective punishment in anti-fraud campaigns, restricting family benefits and loans of suspects' relatives, and called it unconstitutional. The rebuke was narrow. It covered those specific campaigns. It did not address the same practices applied to political dissidents, which continued without interruption. The United Nations, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch have all raised concerns. China denies systematic collective punishment and describes these actions as lawful enforcement. The families living under these measures are not in a position to publicly disagree. The CCP reaches through borders, through blood, and across generations to ensure that the cost of speaking is paid by everyone who loves you. #China #CCP #HumanRights #TransnationalRepression #Lianzu #Dissidents #Geopolitics #CollectivePunishment #XiJinping #FreedomOfSpeech

Same person. Same raised arm. 1989: Fist raised for democracy and Tiananmen students at the Hong Kong Concert for Democracy in China. Today: Arm raised waving the PRC flag for the regime that crushed them — in front of Young Pioneers. Cally Kwong 鄺美雲 proves it: Money makes the world go round. From pro-democracy singer to NPC deputy, jewelry tycoon, and loyal Beijing cheerleader. Principles are flexible when the right business opportunities (and access to the mainland market) come knocking.

HAPPENING THIS WEEK: The Select Committee will hold a bipartisan press conference in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre. The Chinese Communist Party refuses to admit the truth about this shameful, bloody day in its history. It actively threatens those who share the facts about this tragedy, whether they are in China or America. The Select Committee stands with Chinese dissidents and will always remind the world of the CCP’s tyranny.