2026年10月7日星期三独立中文资讯平台
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Documenting cases in which civil liberties, personal rights, religious belief and freedom of expression are violated under Chinese Communist Party rule, with particular attention to people who are detained, disappeared, surveilled or suppressed.

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After five years of labour distress, Xiao Five was locked up in Guangzhou prison.
人权观察

After five years of labour distress, Xiao Five was locked up in Guangzhou prison.

The labour advocate Feng Xiaohu (Sixie V) has been identified as being detained in the Jail Centre of the Wusu District of Guangzhou. He has long documented the rights of riders, migrant workers and white collars, and his report on over 100,000 words of work incident was previously deleted.

林北辰 · 07/10/2026
Not even Jesus: Young believers were asked to sing a hymn song after the Anhui family church had raided it.
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Not even Jesus: Young believers were asked to sing a hymn song after the Anhui family church had raided it.

On October 6, the Korean Religious Liberty Agency released further details of the raid on the Anhui Kimiya Family Church. According to live testimony, the police confiscated the phone, took the two preachers, and religious officials subsequently banned young believers from singing poetry with the word “Jesus” “God” and asked for a song to be changed to the hymn.

宋知微 · 07/10/2026
From the "Gunsun Xi Jinping" to the marked deterioration of the condition: 18 years after the sentence, families still do not have access to transparent medical information
人权观察

From the "Gunsun Xi Jinping" to the marked deterioration of the condition: 18 years after the sentence, families still do not have access to transparent medical information

After 18 years of imprisonment, the disease deteriorated. The family had already requested medical treatment outside the home, but the official information on the medical treatment had not been made public. Access to transparent medical treatment for politically sensitive prisoners is becoming a question of the bottom line in testing the Chinese prison system.

林北辰 · 07/10/2026
Two years after her release, Li Waki-chul fought with the physical memory left behind in prison: she started complaining for herself.
人权观察

Two years after her release, Li Waki-chul fought with the physical memory left behind in prison: she started complaining for herself.

On 6 October, Li Quixuan spoke publicly about the traumatic physical response after his release from prison and disclosed that he had submitted his complaint. After two years of imprisonment, she began to challenge the conviction of “inciting subversion of State power” in the same year and to bring back the long-term harm left behind in detention to public records.

顾行舟 · 06/10/2026