The United Nations Committee Against Torture (CAT) has concluded its review of the Chinese regime's compliance with the Convention against Torture.

In its document,

The following is a recent speech given at a presentation titled, "The Future of Human Rights in China," by Peng Yongfeng a lawyer who practiced in China before coming to the United States. He currently works for the Human Rights Law Foundation in Washington, D.C..


You probably have read from newspapers that China has...

This past summer, party-state President Xi Jinping launched an all-out attack on China’s fragile human rights legal community. Since taking the Communist Party leadership in 2013, Xi has increasingly cracked down on what he views as western-style freedoms in China. The hopes of the Chinese people and their friends around the world for gradual reform, leading to the rule of law, a sustainable natural environment, and democracy-no doubt one with very Chinese characteristics-have been set...

The US Federal Communications Commission and the Justice Department are investigating a California firm whose U.S. radio broadcasts are backed by a subsidiary of the Chinese government.

Both investigations come come after a recent Reuters...

Friends of Falun Gong published a full page open letter to China's Xi Jinping in the New York Times on September 28, the day of Xi's address to the United Nations General Assembly.

Friends of Falun Gong (FoFG.org) is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization of concerned Americans that supports the freedom of belief of persons who practice Falun Gong.

The complete text of the open letter follows:

Independent Australian Senator Jacqui Lambie has warned in a speech in the Australian Senate on the 8th September that China's actions in the South China Sea compromised Australia's national security and sovereignty.

She said that in May. media articles described the reactions of two cabinet ministers to China's relationship with Australia: "Firstly, we have...

On Tuesday 12th August an extremely importing briefing was held in the
Waratah Room NSW Parliament house relating to the killing of political
prisoners in China for the purpose of selling their organs.

Eminent speakers were Dr Sophia Bryskine of Doctors Against Forced Organ
Harvesting (DAFOH), Andrea Tokaji, lawyer from Fighting for Justice
Foundation (who knows about communism first hand as her family escaped
from Ceaucescu’s Romania in 1987) and...

A joint letter has been sent today to members of the International Olympics Committee calling on them to reject Beijing’s bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. The letter is signed by the president of the World Uyghur Congress, the director of the Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center, the president of Initiatives for China and a former Tibetan political prisoner, jailed and tortured for actions related to the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008.

The IOC will announce...

Following confirmation that the body of Tibetan political prisoner Tenzin Delek Rinpoche was cremated in prison on the 16th July, Free Tibet has obtained letters from his family to prison authorities demanding that they provide legal justifications for their...

A speech by Bob Vinnicombe of China Information.com.au at a rally in Sydney, Australia in support of the

North and South Korea are observing the 65th anniversary of the 1950s conflict that left millions dead and the two countries permanently divided.

China-backed North Korean forces launched an assault across the 38th parallel on the 25th June 1950. The U.S. and its allies intervened in the conflict on the side of the South.

The fighting, which killed up to three million soldiers and civilians, ended in 1953 with a truce, leaving the two Koreas in a technical state of...

The party-state in Beijing is again revealing its totalitarian colors to the world through its conduct toward Canadian citizen Anastasia Lin.

Lin, 25, has for several years been a vocal critic of China’s government for its brutal persecution of spiritual minorities, most notably the Falun Gong, Christian, Tibetan Buddhist, and...