Chengdu has had one of the healthiest housing markets in China. As I wrote last year, the removal of purchase restrictions there would be viewed as a very negative signal not just for the local market but for China overall. The restrictions were just removed…

Join this webinar co-organized by FORUM-ASIA Asia Democracy Network LadyLibertyHK on 2 May - 8am Bangkok time, 10am Tokyo time, 11 Melbourne time.

Excellent speakers: Shibani Mahtani Aleksandra Bielakowska Simon Henderson

Wang Li, the wife of imprisoned poet Wang Zang, visited him in prison on April 28, and tweeted that would be her last visit. Wang Zang will finish serving his sentence on May 30 and then finally be able to reunite with his wife and four children at home.

So it’s taken multiple impersonator accounts to get me to pay the ransom. Pains me to say that sloppy account monitoring by the platform has been rewarded, but it is what it is.

#NEW REPORT: Government's Ongoing Persecution Causes Heavy Blow to #Hong Kong's Labour Rights in 2023
Full report: bit.ly/4aOWaSH

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Explore the impact of Hong Kong's Article 23 with experts and activists. Join us for a critical dialogue on human rights on 2 May 2024. Register at l.forum-asia.org/HK-Webinar #HongKong #Article23 #HumanRights

A staggering finding & I hope the global anti-death penalty community can note.

International law says that the use of the death penalty must be restricted to the most serious crimes, meaning intentional killing.

Robert Dunham Death Penalty News chiara sangiorgio OMCT Reprieve The Rights Practice

🧵'Can an organization that sees itself as above politics, that sees itself straightforwardly as a support system for an open society, be allowed to exist anymore?' asks Gal Beckerman in The Atlantic theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

Picture Xi Jinping 'strapped into a giant, bureaucratic authoritarian machine...a prisoner of the system.' Sobering assessment of the CCP mindset by former hostage of Beijing Michael Kovrig in POLITICO Ottawa Playbook w/Kyle Duggan bit.ly/3w18Dnf

'We stand in solidarity with our fellow journalists in Gaza...the question is: where's everyone else?'

For Zeteo, me, @gretathunberg, Naomi Klein, fatima bhutto, @byoussef & a host of Zeteo contributors read out the words of Palestinian journalists killed by Israel in Gaza.

Watch:

Good thread, really does feel like something has snapped

Hongqi in Jan 2017: 'The 'characteristics' in socialism with Chinese characteristics has many aspects, but the fundamental characteristic is the leadership of the CCP. This is our unique political advantage and to some extent, the most feared by Western hostile forces'

What became of Rahile Dawut? The Uyghur academic pursued her life’s work under an increasingly authoritarian Chinese state. Then she vanished FT Weekend Magazine ft.com/content/ca0364…

Today marks Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima’s 35th birthday. On this day, 🇺🇸 renews our calls for the PRC to immediately provide proof of his whereabouts & well-being and reaffirms our support for Tibetans to select, educate, and venerate their religious leaders free of…

Morning run view

Geneva City gov. announced they would erect a public monument paying tribute to the memory of all 'human rights activists and the universal causes they embody.' The move follows a request by 16 civil society orgs. to Geneva gov. to host Cao Shunli's bust. geneve.ch/document/commu…

Today, Chairman Joe Wilson and Ranking Member Steve Cohen released a statement calling on Georgian leadership to abandon the Russian-style 'foreign agent' bill. Georgia must divert from this destructive path and return to its previous liberal democratic trajectory.

Thank you China Commission Chair Smith & Tom Suozzi for new legislation designating the area outside the U.S. HKETO office as 'Jimmy Lai Way.' It sends a strong message to Beijing & #HongKong that we will not rest until #JimmyLai & other political prisoners in HK are released

MAJOR WIN: inspired by #CaoShunli , City of Geneva will erect a monument to honour all persecuted human rights defenders globally.

In the context of our joint #RememberCaoShunli campaign, ISHR delivered last week a petition with 1000+ signatures.

ishr.ch/latest-updates…

The Hong Kong Journalists Association (香港記者協會 HKJA) had planned the concert to raise funds to support press freedom but the live event was axed at the last minute. It is the latest in a series of such events faced by remaining civil society groups...