The Chinese Communist Party’s dark crimes

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Spies suspect 500 incidents of foreign meddling

The head of ASIO, Mike Burgess, said covert agents of foreign powers made up just a tiny minority of diaspora communities.

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Several countries are behind such activity but officials have said that the Chinese Communist Party is by far the most active in trying to influence Australian politicians and political processes covertly.

A secret government report uncovered China’s attempts to influence all levels of politics in Australia

Commissioned by Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, the inquiry was headed by John Garnaut who warned of China's growing interference attempts when he spoke with the US Armed Services House Committee in March 2018. The Communist Party's attempts have reportedly been going on for a decade.

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* A secret report commissioned by Australia's prime minister found attempts by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to influence all levels of government.

* The report found the CCP's interference attempts have been going on for a decade, and described China as the country that is most concerning to Australia.

* The inquiry was led by a former government adviser who spoke to the US Armed Services Committee about China's growing political interference earlier this year.

Chinese 'spies' in UK universities accused of passing tech to Beijing

Foreign Office, Special Branch and HMRC specialists have a list of academics suspected of passing sensitive information to Beijing, including pioneering British technology.

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Cao Shunli died five years ago. She stood up to China on human rights, and so must we | Frances Eve

Cao died after making claims of torture and detention. The world must remember her spirit in facing up to Beijing

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Five years ago today, Chinese activist Cao Shunli died in a Beijing hospital surrounded by police.

Her ordeal began in September 2013, when she tried to fly to Geneva to attend a session of the UN human rights council (UNHRC). Cao had submitted information on extralegal detention and torture in China to the UN and expressed the hope that if she could get even “50 or 100 words” into a UN report, “many of our problems could start to get addressed”.

Cao never made the flight. Police took her away at the airport, detained her for six months, and denied her medical treatment despite repeated warnings from her lawyer that her health was deteriorating, until it was too late. Doctors at the hospital expressed shock at her condition; it seemed she had simply been left to die in her cell. No state agent has been punished for her death.

Many human rights defenders, like Cao, and ethnic and religious minorities have died in Chinese custody due to torture or deprivation of medical treatment. China’s only Nobel peace prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, Uighur scholar Muhammad Salih Hajim, and Tibetan monk Tenzin Delek Rinpoche all died in police custody in recent years.

Others, like detained citizen journalist Huang Qi, await such a fate without urgent intervention. Police have denied Huang, who has kidney and heart diseases, medical treatment and have repeatedly beaten him in custody. His condition has deteriorated to the point where supporters fear he may become “another Cao Shunli” and UN independent experts recently expressed concern he might die in detention.

Ten other Chinese activists, journalists, scholars, and lawyers are on a medical watchlist of political prisoners, launched after Cao’s death to draw attention to China’s practice of torture by withholding medical treatment.

In fact, after Cao’s death, the UN general assembly re-elected China to the UN human rights council in 2016 by a greater number of votes than in 2013. Chinese Communist party mouthpiece the People’s Daily proudly heralded it as proof that China’s human rights progress had “received widespread approval from the international community”.

It’s no coincidence that following a weak response internationally to the deaths of prominent human rights defenders and a widespread crackdown on civil society that the Xi government felt confident enough to establish a system of mass internment camps for ethnic Uighurs and Muslims and turn the Xinjiang region into a “no-rights zone”.

Human rights defenders and ethnic and religious minorities in China face real risks for standing up to the Chinese government. They don’t pay with lost trade deals but with their lives. The risks of speaking out in defence of human rights and fundamental freedoms in China include losing your job, your home, your family, or being disappeared, arbitrarily detained, tortured, or even killed.

Chinese dissident found dead, family suspect foul play

A labor activist and Chinese dissident jailed after the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing has been found dead in a hospital ward in central China amidst suspicious circumstances, his family and rights groups said on Wednesday.

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Li Wangyang was found by his sister and brother-in-law on Wednesday apparently hanged by a bandage around his neck in his hospital room in Shaoyang city in Hunan province. Security and hospital authorities said that he had committed suicide.

His family, however, disputed this and said the circumstances surrounding his death were suspicious.

“He is a person with a very strong will,” his friend Yin Zhengan said on the same television channel. “I never felt that he wanted to kill himself.”

Groups including the Hong Kong-based Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in China said in a statement that security personnel may have faked a suicide after beating him.

Hong Kong-based lawmaker and activist Lee Cheuk-yan, who spoke with Li’s family after the death, said Li had been constantly watched by security guards and that they could easily have prevented any suicide attempt.

“The circumstances are very suspicious,” Lee said.

Li had been a labor activist in the city of Shaoyang in Hunan province, whose advocacy of labor rights during the 1989 pro-democracy protests saw him jailed for 22 years, according to the group Human Rights in China, on charges including counter-revolutionary propaganda and incitement.

 

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Chinese Political Prisoner Dies Amid Suspicion of Torture, Mistreatment

Guo Hongwei's family warned as early as 2019 that he was likely to be 'bullied to death' in prison.

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A Chinese political prisoner jailed after he publicly supported the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong has died at the age of 48, despite warnings from his family that mistreatment and possible torture at the hands of the prison authorities and police could kill him.

Guo Hongwei, who was serving a 13-year jail term in China's northeastern province of Jilin, was rushed to hospital with a brain hemorrhage after his family repeatedly warned that his high blood pressure had been left unmedicated, Hong Kong's Apple Daily newspaper reported on Monday.

A person familiar with the matter told RFA last week that Guo had been tortured.

"Guo Hongwei was tortured by the authorities over a long period during his stay in Songyuan Prison," the person said.

"He was kept in a cell that was two meters (6.5 feet) square; a small, dark room with no toilet, no light and no ventilation," they said.

Guo was jailed by a court in Jilin's Siping city in 2016 for "extortion" and "picking quarrels and stirring up trouble," a charge frequently used to target peaceful critics of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Suspect circumstances lead to activist's death, family demands autopsy

Peng Ming (Photo: China Aid) China Aid (Xianning, Hubei—Dec. 5, 2016) Family members are demanding an independently-conducted autopsy following the mysterious death of an imprisoned Christian and veteran human rights activist. Peng Ming, a pro-democracy dissident known for establishing the China...

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Family members are demanding an independently-conducted autopsy following the mysterious death of an imprisoned Christian and veteran human rights activist.

Peng Ming, a pro-democracy dissident known for establishing the China Development Union (also known as the China Development Federation) and publishing a work offering suggestions to China’s development model, known as The Fourth Monument, allegedly fainted on Nov. 29 while watching television. He was rushed to the hospital.

Officials phoned his brother, who had visited Peng just three days before, and relayed the news to him. By the time he reached the hospital, Peng had already been declared dead and transferred to a funeral home.

However, authorities did not issue a death certificate, leaving his cause of death unclear.

Officials have warned his overseas family members not to attend the funeral.

When Peng returned to Thailand in 2004 to visit his aging parents, Chinese special agents devised a plan to lure him into Burma and abduct him back to China. Once he arrived in his homeland, he was charged with organizing and leading a terrorist organization, kidnapping and possessing counterfeit money. He was given a life sentence.

No escape: The fearful life of China’s exiled dissidents

Activists, journalists and critics of Chinese leadership and authority tell stories of surveillance and threats abroad.

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Xue, who was granted asylum in Canada, says they contacted her repeatedly, warning they were tracking her every move and threatening to kill her if she continued to criticise China’s leaders.

Chinese authorities have long been accused of silencing their critics at home but now it seems their threatening methods of censorship and surveillance are extending to activists who have fled to the supposed safety of foreign soil.

In this exclusive investigation, 101 East reveals that China is taking extreme measures to silence anyone who speaks out against its government.

Interviews with more than 20 activists and journalists in countries like the US, Canada and Australia, paint a disturbing picture of how China uses intimidation and harassment to control overseas dissent.

But many dissidents living abroad continue to fear for family members back home.

In a rare interview with a Chinese government insider, a former high-level diplomat reveals the country’s strategy of silencing dissent abroad.

“If they get involved in any anti-communist group, they would definitely be harmed. It happens,” says Chen Yonglin, who defected to Australia in 2005. “Most of the Chinese immigrants are still scared because they know the Chinese regime may go to extreme means.”

 

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AI emotion-detection software tested on Uyghurs

A software engineer tells BBC's Panorama about installing the system in police stations in Xinjiang.

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"The Chinese government use Uyghurs as test subjects for various experiments just like rats are used in laboratories," he said.

And he outlined his role in installing the cameras in police stations in the province: "We placed the emotion detection camera 3m from the subject. It is similar to a lie detector but far more advanced technology."

He said officers used "restraint chairs" which are widely installed in police stations across China.

"Your wrists are locked in place by metal restraints, and [the] same applies to your ankles."

He provided evidence of how the AI system is trained to detect and analyse even minute changes in facial expressions and skin pores.

According to his claims, the software creates a pie chart, with the red segment representing a negative or anxious state of mind.

He claimed the software was intended for "pre-judgement without any credible evidence".

"It is shocking material. It's not just that people are being reduced to a pie chart, it's people who are in highly coercive circumstances, under enormous pressure, being understandably nervous and that's taken as an indication of guilt, and I think, that's deeply problematic."

"Everyone knows that the smartphone is something you have to carry with you, and if you don't carry it you can be detained, they know that you're being tracked by it. And they feel like there's no escape," he said.

"For each person the government would store their personal information, their political activities, relationships... anything that might give you insight into how that person would behave and what kind of a threat they might pose," said IPVM's Conor Healy.

"It makes any kind of dissidence potentially impossible and creates true predictability for the government in the behaviour of their citizens. I don't think that [George] Orwell would ever have imagined that a government could be capable of this kind of analysis."

China is estimated to be home to half of the world's almost 800 million surveillance cameras.

It also has a large number of smart cities, such as Chongqing, where AI is built into the foundations of the urban environment.

Chongqing-based investigative journalist Hu Liu told Panorama of his own experience: "Once you leave home and step into the lift, you are captured by a camera. There are cameras everywhere."

"There have been occasions when I have met some friends and soon after someone from the government contacts me. They warned me, 'Don't see that person, don't do this and that.'

"With artificial intelligence we have nowhere to hide," he said.

 

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JASPER BECKER: No wonder so many experts say Covid DID leak from lab

JASPER BECKER: In Wuhan scientists have created more than 1,000 genetically engineered animals, including monkeys and rabbits.

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In another Chinese city, Wuhan – where the Covid-19 pandemic originated – scientists have created more than 1,000 genetically engineered animals, including monkeys and rabbits.

Much of the work is supervised by the People's Liberation Army, which closely monitors two areas – any gene modification that can create better soldiers, and micro-organisms that can be gene-edited to make new biological weapons to which people have no defences.

 

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China: UN human rights experts alarmed by ‘organ harvesting’ allegations

中文 GENEVA (14 June 2021) – UN human rights experts* said today they were extremely alarmed by reports of alleged ‘organ harvesting’ targeting minorities, including Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, Tibetans, Muslims and Christians, in detention in China.

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GENEVA (14 June 2021) – UN human rights experts* said today they were extremely alarmed by reports of alleged ‘organ harvesting’ targeting minorities, including Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, Tibetans, Muslims and Christians, in detention in China.

The experts said they have received credible information that detainees from ethnic, linguistic or religious minorities may be forcibly subjected to blood tests and organ examinations such as ultrasound and x-rays, without their informed consent; while other prisoners are not required to undergo such examinations. The results of the examinations are reportedly registered in a database of living organ sources that facilitates organ allocation.

“Forced organ harvesting in China appears to be targeting specific ethnic, linguistic or religious minorities held in detention, often without being explained the reasons for arrest or given arrest warrants, at different locations,” they said. “We are deeply concerned by reports of discriminatory treatment of the prisoners or detainees based on their ethnicity and religion or belief.

UN human rights experts have previously raised the issue with the Chinese Government in 2006 and 2007. Unfortunately, the Government responses lacked data such as waiting times for organ allocation, or information on the sources of organs. In this context, the lack of available data and information-sharing systems are obstacles to the successful identification and protection of victims of trafficking and effective investigation and prosecution of traffickers.

Another UN Human Rights mechanism has also highlighted concerns about the practice of removing organs from prisoners of a certain religious minority.

 

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very well done presentation of crimes and horrors the CCP has committed and their intentions. Thanks.

careful though, some people here screamed racism and all sort of obscenities when we merely pointed out that Covid originated in China and may have been from a lab.

 

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Report: In the room: the UK’s role in multilateral diplomacy - Committees - UK Parliament

<p>Today, the Foreign Affairs Committee publishes its report <em>In the room: the UK's role in multilateral diplomacy</em>.</p>

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After Carbis Bay this report found that the current system of multilateral organisations and our modern international system are in jeopardy. Autocratic states are attempting to seize control of strategically important organisations, to weaponise them, and to fundamentally redefine the once universally agreed principles on which they are based and democracies are doing too little to defend their interests. There is a very real risk that democratic states will lose multilateral organisations to authoritarian states.

The report found evidence of China’s increasing use of aggressive means, including exploiting bilateral economic leverage, to coerce states to back their position or their candidates and then using the organisations to shift policies away from the cooperation the organisations were created to promote. The use of aggressive diplomacy by China, or 'bullying', can be seen in operation at the United Nations Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) as well as the World Health Organisation (WHO).

The report found that threats from multilateral organisations can come in more subtle forms. For example, the steady acquisition of key official positions in multiple multilateral organisations by the Chinese Government

“Dictatorships are taking over the institutions build out of the wreckage of the Second World War to defend democracy. By stepping back for the tables where the rules are made we’ve seen fairness and freedom fade. It’s time we thought again about our place if we want to claim the influence our grandparents left us. The WHO, OSCE, and Interpol, have shaped our world and defended our citizens. Today, others are using those same tools against us.

We have a choice. We can watch the erosion of our influence and the retreat of our values or invest in the bodies that keep us safe by defending the rules. We need to work with partners in the US, Europe and around the world if we want our voice to be heard. Whenever we step away from our commitments, or stay silent, we make ourselves weaker.

 

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How the CCP Red Aristocracy infiltrates the west

Chinese communist leaders denounce U.S. values but send children to U.S. colleges
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...-us-colleges/2012/05/18/gIQAiEidZU_story.html

Defector Claiming Chinese Military Responsible for COVID-19 Identified as Top Counterintelligence Official

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Again, according to sources, Dong told DIA debriefers that at least a third of Chinese students attending US universities are PLA assets or part of the Thousand Talents Plan and that many of the students are here under pseudonyms. One reason for using pseudonyms is that many of these students are the children of high-ranking military and party leaders.

How China's 'red aristocracy' sneaked into the heart of UK finance

Top communist party leaders in China are known as the 'red aristocracy', and, for all their professed belief in equality, they like to ensure a gold-plated future for their children.

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• China’s red aristocracy is placing its children at the heart of Western finance
• So-called 'princelings’ are placed in high-flying financial businesses in the West
• Deutsche Bank used bribes and corrupt practices to gain access to China

Top communist party leaders in China are known as the ‘red aristocracy’, and, for all their professed belief in equality, they like to ensure a gold-plated future for their children.

Hence the so-called ‘princelings’, who are placed in high-flying financial businesses in the West.

As one equity executive told the Financial Times: ‘You don’t say no to a princeling.’

Of course, some of these princelings may have been employed on their own merits as respected bankers and financiers, but there is no doubt that China’s red aristocracy is placing its children at the heart of Western finance.

Panama Papers reveal offshore secrets of China’s red nobility

Disclosures show how havens such as British Virgin Islands hide links between Chinese big business and relatives of top politicians

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The eight members of China’s Communist party elite whose family members used offshore companies are revealed in the Panama Papers.

They are part of the “red nobility”, whose influence extends well beyond politics.

 

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Many CCP Red Princelings and their family members have western citizenships, and have massive amount of assets in the west.

For example, Deng Zhou-Di, born in the US, is a grandson of the former CCP chief Deng Xiaoping :

https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/邓卓棣

邓卓棣（1986年10月17日－）[2][3]，小名小弟，四川广安人，生于美国。邓小平之孙[4]。

邓卓棣来到美国杜克大学法学院留学。在校期间，他用的名字是David Zhuo，采用了奶奶卓琳的卓姓，这可能是为避免引人注目。2008年从杜克大学法学院毕业，获得法学硕士学位。后在美国纽约华尔街的一家律师事务所工作[4]

2013年5月2日，邓卓棣被任命为广西壮族自治区百色市平果县副县长

2014年1月云南媒体报道他担任中共广西平果县新安镇党委书记，同时兼任“平果县副县长”。

Rough translation :

Deng Zhuodi (October 17, 1986 -), nicknamed Little Brother, ancestral origin Guang'an of Sichuan, born in the United States, grandson of Deng Xiaoping.

Deng Zhuodi studied in Duke University School of Law. During school, he used a pseudonym David Zhuo, adopting the surname Zhuo of his grandmother Zhuo Lin, in order to avoid attention. He graduated from Duke University School of Law in 2008 with a master's degree in law. Later worked in a law firm on Wall Street in New York, USA[4]

On May 2, 2013, Deng Zhuodi was appointed as the Deputy Chief of Pingguo County, Bai-Se City of Guangxi.

In January 2014, Yunnan media reported that he became the Secretary of CCP party commission of Xin'an Town, Pingguo County, Guangxi, and he was also the Deputy Chief of Pingguo County.

Deng Xiaoping ordered the June 4 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and enforced the only-one-child policy that murdered hundreds of millions of Chinese fetuses and babies.

Deng Xiaoping - Wikipedia

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Deng was criticized for ordering military crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests as well as not thoroughly correcting the mistakes of Cultural Revolution

Deng continued the plans initiated by Hua Guofeng to restrict birth to only one child, limiting women to one child under pain of administrative penalty.[68] The policy applied to urban areas, and included forced abortions.

1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre - Wikipedia

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One-child policy - Wikipedia

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Trump’s Conflicts of Interest in China

China has been busy buying Trump properties since the election and has granted Trump a long-sought series of trademarks in the country—just days after Trump reversed his position on Taiwan.

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Anbang is one of the most aggressive Chinese buyers of U.S. real estate and has allegedly very close ties to the Chinese government. Its shadowy structure has caused suspicion about its real ownership and has led some U.S. firms to not work with the company because it doesn’t meet their client information guidelines. Anbang is headed by Wu Xiaohui, who is married to the granddaughter of former Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping.

Woman Who Paid Trump $16 Million Cash for Apartment Has Ties to Chinese Military Intelligence

Trump Park Avenue penthouse buyer Angela Chen has worked with the China Association for International Friendly Contacts, a military intelligence group.

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In late February, Mother Jones broke the news that Donald Trump had sold a $16 million Park Avenue penthouse to a woman named Angela Chen who runs a consulting firm that connects foreign clients with influential people in China.

Angela Chen, in addition to her work as a consultant/broker, chairs the United States wing of a nonprofit cultural-exchange group called the China Arts Foundation.

The China Arts Foundation was founded by a woman named Deng Rong. Deng Rong’s father, Deng Xiaoping, was a contemporary of Mao’s who succeeded him as the leader of China. Deng Rong is also a vice president of an outreach group called the China Association for International Friendly Contacts, or CAIFC, that has co-hosted events with the China Arts Foundation.

The China Association for International Friendly Contacts is widely considered to be a propaganda/intelligence wing of the Chinese army.

Deng Rong is a supporter and defender of the June 4 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. According to some sources, Deng Rong urged her father Deng Xiaoping to use military forces to crack down the unarmed civilian protest, insisting that it was the only way to maintain the CCP’s rulership.

Deng Rong - Wikipedia

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The U.S. policies & congress bills regarding China are often less effective because they usually put pressure on China instead of the CCP Red Aristocracy.

The CCP Red Aristocracy’s topmost concern is their rulership of China. As long as they can maintain their rulership, they don’t care how many Chinese people would be killed, or how worse China would be.

In fact, the CCP itself killed the most Chinese people, far more than any other regimes in history or abroad did. The CCP also ruined China’s environment, poisoned China’s air, water, food, etc., and brainwashed Chinese people, forcing them to worship the CCP, as if the murderer is the savior.

When US policies / congress bills put pressure on China, trying to make the CCP respect human rights, be more transparent, etc., the CCP won’t yield. The CCP’s core interest / topmost concern is their rulership of China. They view human rights, freedom of information, etc., as the biggest threats to their ruling, therefore they won’t make any concession on these matters.

The CCP Red Aristocracy view China as a “farm” and Chinese people as the “crops”. They would rather the “farm” be poor and less productive, but they won’t allow anything that would potentially harm their ownership of the farm.

Especially they had already harvested enough “crops” and transferred the money to the west, their “ship-sinking plan” had already been successful. The western pressure on China could hardly make them concede, except the pressure focuses on the Red Aristocracy themselves.

 

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UN betrays Chinese dissidents by passing their information to the CCP

Former UN Official Calls For Probe of Rights Body Confirming Dissident Testimonies to China

Emma Reilly says OHCHR has been doing so for years, putting participants and their families at risk.

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The United Nations should allow an independent probe into whether its human rights body is providing China with the names of dissidents, including Uyghurs in exile, who testify about rights violations in the country, putting them and their families at risk of reprisal, according to a former agency official.

Emma Reilly, a human rights lawyer and contract staffer with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) U.N. Human Rights Office, said her branch has been providing China with information about dissidents who plan to testify at the U.N. for at least 14 years, despite claims by a spokesperson that the practice had ended in 2015.

According to the U.N. Charter, U.N. bodies are forbidden from handing over the names of those who plan to testify about rights abuses to any member state because of the danger it places them and their loved ones in, should a member state try to prevent them from giving a statement.

But Reilly said that while the rules are supposed to apply to every U.N. member state equally, “when it came to China, my boss decided that there would be an exception.”

According to Reilly, her office did not stop providing names to the Chinese mission. She also alleged that it had been happening since at least 2006.

“When I first was reporting this publicly, [the OHCHR] put out a press release saying it was perfectly normal,” she said.

“So, in 2017, they admitted that it was still ongoing. And then in 2020 … they claimed that it stopped in 2015. So why did you put out a press release in 2017, saying it's still happening?”

But Reilly told RFA that she has since written to governments—including those of the U.S., U.K., Sweden, Norway, Canada, Australia, and Germany—whose citizens or residents are on the lists provided to the Chinese delegation, calling on them to demand an independent investigation into her claims.

“The response has been, from some of the governments that have responded to me, that they have gone to the U.N. and asked about it, and they’ve been assured that it stopped. But the U.N. has lied repeatedly throughout this.”

When asked whether the U.N. is still providing the lists, Reilly responded, “all of the evidence points to that.”

Leaked emails confirm UN passed info to China in name-sharing scandal

UN Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights says controversial practice ended in 2015 - Anadolu Ajansı

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The UN Human Rights Office is under fire for sharing the names of Chinese government opponents, including Uighur activists, Tibetans and Hongkongers, who took part in UN activities, for a long period.

Although the OHCHR denies the allegations, some emails among its employees, press releases and interviews have revealed that the UN shared the names of many Chinese activists and some opponents who attended panel discussions, conferences, and open sessions on human rights with the Chinese government.

Human rights organizations, including UN Watch and Human Rights Watch, argue that the UN’s practice endangered not only the lives of Chinese activists and dissidents, but also their families and relatives.

She said that the names of 50-70 people who are opponents of the Chinese government were handed over and among them are 8-9 people with US citizenship and 5-6 with German citizenship. Reilly also said that she informed both countries about the situation.

“There is actually a rule at the Human Rights Council. The rule is that if a country wants to know who is coming, they have to ask the plenary. They have to ask in front of the member states,” she stressed.

“And that rule is written, it’s very clear. And it was broken for China.”

 

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UN Human Rights Council accused of handing over names of dissidents to China - The Humanoid

China's infiltration of the UN Human Rights Council led to torture and death of family members of witnesses claims a whistleblower from the organisation.

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Ms Reilly added: “The UN is seen as the last great hope that principles matter and human rights actually exist.

“The people that go to the UN Human Rights Council know the risks they are taking, to a degree, but what they don’t expect is that the UN is going to betray them.”

UN sent emails to China of human rights activists claims whistleblower

CHINA'S alleged infiltration of the UN has led to the institution handing over a list of names of human rights activists to Beijing which endangered the lives of their family members, and this activity is "ongoing" a human rights lawyer and whistleblower has claimed.

www.express.co.uk

Congress Probes Claims U.N. Gave Names of Uyghur Dissidents to China

Congress is investigating new allegations the United Nations fed the names of Chinese dissidents to the Communist Party, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.

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No Space Left to Run - China's Transnational Repression of Uyghurs
https://oxussociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/transnational-repression_final_2021-06-23.pdf

Countries Comply With China’s Efforts to Silence Uyghurs Abroad — Report

The Chinese government uses a variety of techniques to repress Uyghurs who live abroad.

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Chinese Refugees Fear Deportation as Thailand Increases Cooperation with China

Several cases show how Chinese police are working through Thai law enforcement agencies, or even traveling to Thailand on their own, to try to find fleeing dissidents and bring them back to China

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Chinese dissidents fleeing abroad have long used Thailand as a route for escaping repression at home. In recent years, Thailand’s government has been cooperating more with Beijing’s effort to pursue dissidents overseas, putting them at risk.

Several cases show how Chinese police are working through Thai law enforcement agencies, or even traveling to Thailand on their own, to try to find fleeing dissidents and bring them back to China.

Dissidents fearful as Thailand, once a haven, favors China

One night last month, Liu Xuehong stood weeping outside the gates of the United Nations headquarters in Bangkok, begging the guards to let her in.

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The Chinese dissident had received a threatening call from an anonymous Chinese official, and feared that she, like other asylum seekers in Thailand, would be snatched away by agents of China or deported by a Thai junta increasingly allied to it.

Liu is one of hundreds of Chinese who have fled for Thailand, say human rights groups. It was long considered a refuge, but not anymore.

Two Chinese dissidents recently disappeared from Thai soil, only to reappear a few weeks later in China in police custody. Thailand deported two others late last year despite a U.N. plan to resettle them in Canada.

The CCP agents are extremely active in Southeast Asia countries. Besides cross-border kidnapping, the CCP agents also carry out covert health attacks on the Chinese dissidents abroad, with microwave weapons, bio-chemical weapons, etc., causing them ill or dead.

Updated: Human rights defender mysteriously dies

ChinaAid Update: Since this report was published, an autopsy was conducted on the body. Although the doctor initially ruled that the cause of death was unknown, a spokesperson for a prosecutor’s office handling the case said he had died of poisoning. A previous version of this report...

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(Munich—May 8, 2019) En route to Paris, Zhang Jian, a former student participant in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, passed away suddenly in Munich on April 23.

Before news of his death had been confirmed, Zhang went missing in Thailand, and it is not known who he met with or whether or not anyone there contributed to his death.

Although a doctor initially ruled his cause of death was unknown, a representative a prosecution office handling his case said that he had died of poisoning after an autopsy was conducted, according to Wei Jingsheng Foundation News.

This echoes the case of Li Baiguang, a Chinese human rights defender who died suddenly in a Nanjing military hospital after arriving there to seek treatment for stomach pain. Hours later, he died mysteriously, and doctors alleged his passing was due to liver complications. Li previously had no record of having the disease, arousing suspicions from human rights activists and prompting ChinaAid to ask for a clear and honest report from the Chinese government regarding his demise. None was issued.

 

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‘Dozens’ of Chinese Moles in U.S. Intelligence, U.S. expert claims

FBI is ‘completely outmatched’ by espionage onslaught, says Nicholas Eftimiades, a former top DIA expert on Chinese espionage. Others agree.

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The entire U.S. intelligence community—17 agencies in all—has been penetrated by Chinese spies, says Nicholas Eftimiades, who recently retired as one of the U.S. government’s top experts on Chinese espionage.

Fmr. Intel Official: Abundance of Chinese Moles at US Think Tanks

A one-stop shop for think tanks.

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The entire U.S. intelligence community—17 agencies in all—has been penetrated by Chinese spies, says Nicholas Eftimiades, who recently retired as one of the U.S. government’s top experts on Chinese espionage.

He added, “I think if we're talking about [the] Justice [Department], the intelligence community, the 17 agencies including the DNI, I'd be stunned if there weren't dozens, absolutely stunned if there weren't dozens” of Chinese moles.

China has already infiltrated America’s institutions

Most Americans probably don’t realize that one of the greatest threats to our national and economic security has already infiltrated nearly every aspect of our society — the influence of the Chines…

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Most Americans probably don’t realize that one of the greatest threats to our national and economic security has already infiltrated nearly every aspect of our society — the influence of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Backed by considerable financial largesse and run through harmless-sounding front organizations, the CCP is aggressively limiting free speech on American college campuses, co-opting and corrupting American politicians and businesses, stealing invaluable American research and development, and undermining the very foundations of our democratic republic.

Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) is the latest example of the CCP’s slow, methodical efforts to gain access to influential politicians and sensitive information. Rep. Swalwell was targeted by a Chinese national named Fang Fang, or Christine Fang, who worked to get close to centers of political power through a classic “honeypot” operation. While it does not appear she received any classified information, the personal habits, schedules, thoughts and opinions of public officials would all be invaluable to an intelligence officer — if not now, then certainly in the future.

Rep. Swalwell is not alone. A driver for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is believed to have worked for China’s Ministry of State Security for 20 years. In that trusted position, he would have been privy to countless phone conversations, in-car discussions and other forms of “chatter,” all of which would be a goldmine for Chinese intelligence.

Beijing is working aggressively, and with some success, to co-opt American intelligence officers. In August 2017, CIA officer Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 67, was arrested along with a relative (also a CIA officer) for conspiring to send classified information to the People’s Republic of China. In 2004 an FBI counterintelligence agent pleaded guilty for concealing a 20-year relationship with a suspected Chinese double agent — a woman he initially recruited.

What the Chinese Communist Party is doing goes well beyond cultural outreach and diplomatic engagement. It is a holistic campaign of malign influence designed to disarm our democracy’s protective antibodies and weaken our republic.

China Used Stolen Data to Expose CIA Operatives in Africa and Europe

The discovery of U.S. spy networks in China fueled a decadelong global war over data between Beijing and Washington.

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Undercover CIA personnel, flying into countries in Africa and Europe for sensitive work, were being rapidly and successfully identified by Chinese intelligence, according to three former U.S. officials. The surveillance by Chinese operatives began in some cases as soon as the CIA officers had cleared passport control. Sometimes, the surveillance was so overt that U.S. intelligence officials speculated that the Chinese wanted the U.S. side to know they had identified the CIA operatives, disrupting their missions; other times, however, it was much more subtle and only detected through U.S. spy agencies’ own sophisticated technical countersurveillance capabilities.

Exclusive: How a suspected Chinese spy gained access to California politics

Christine Fang built connections with up-and-coming California politicians including Eric Swalwell and Ro Khanna.

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A suspected Chinese intelligence operative developed extensive ties with local and national politicians, including a U.S. congressman, in what U.S. officials believe was a political intelligence operation run by China’s main civilian spy agency between 2011 and 2015, Axios found in a yearlong investigation.

 

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The Chinese Communist Party uses Electromagnetic Mind Control / Remote Neural Monitoring weapons, Directed-Energy weapons, Bio-chemical weapons, etc. to carry out covert attacks against Chinese dissidents, human rights defenders, petitioners, etc., causing them ill or dead.

The Chinese petitioners ( 访民 ) are basically not political dissidents, they are regular civilians who were treated unlawfully by the authorities. They knew the officials who treated them unlawfully are corrupt and cruel, but they believe the superiors of the unlawful officials could bring justice to them, so they go to the higher authorities to beg for help, or even go to Beijing to beg the highest authorities for help.

However, the CCP authorities view the petitioners as a factor of potential instability. Therefore, the CCP authorities do everything openly and secretly to block the petitioners, prevent them from seeking justice, and silence them.

Petitioning (China) - Wikipedia

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Petitioning (also known as letters and calls, correspondence and reception, xinfang or shangfang) is the administrative system for hearing complaints and grievances from individuals in the People's Republic of China.

Interception
Provincial capitals have been accused of hiring people in Beijing to abduct petitioners who have travelled from their areas and force them to go back home; this is known as "intercepting." The apparent aim of interceptors is to prevent citizens from appealing in Beijing because local officials face reprisals if citizens from their areas seek redress in the capital.

Imprisonment and abuse
Human rights organizations have accused Chinese authorities of arbitrarily imprisoning large numbers of petitioners in black jails or other illicit detention facilities. In 2009, Human Rights Watch produced a report alleging that large numbers of petitioners, including children, are detained in black jails, and documented several allegations of torture and mistreatment in the facilities.

Rough translation :

The Electromagnetic Mind Control persecution that the CCP actually carries out against Chinese dissidents is much more complicated than some so-called Cult Media (eg. Falun-gong Media) had reported.

The CCP's persecution targets not only the dissident himself, but also his relatives, friends, and any other people who keep in touch with him. All of them will be monitored and attacked covertly.

Among them, his immediate family members will be attacked as intensively as the targeted dissident himself. The final result would be an annihilation of the whole family of the dissident.

Rough translation :

The State-controlled teams that secretly assassinate dissidents and petitioners truly exist.

The two petitioners of South China street died ......

Petitioners of Dalian city who died, as far as I know, are : He-Shu-Wen, died of breast cancer; Hao Wei, got lymphoma and fled to Thailand; Li Xiaoyang, got extremely severe liver ascites and lost the compensatory function quickly.

As for me, I am in the utmost fear due to the very frequent and nearly fatal covert attacks that target me.

Just in the South China street, two petitioners I know of died one after another. How many more people who I don't know had also been killed ?

 

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Rough translation :

Ninety percent of health problems of the dissidents and petitioners are caused by the secret agents who specialize in dirty works.

Lao Chen and Xiao Chen’s waist disc pain;

Lao Ren, Xiao He & Tian Lan’s breast cancer;

Hao Wei’s blood cancer;

Li Xiaoyang’s severe hepatitis;

Hu Jia’s pancreatitis of that year;

Hou Xin’s cerebral infarction;

Song Heyi’s diabetes;

The death of Zhang Xiaolan’s little brother, Cao Shunli, Liu Xiaobo, Yang Tianshui, Li Wangyang, and so forth. The list is endless...

Rough translation :

Too many people have died. Except for the undercover agents pretending to be petitioners, the true petitioners are either sick or dead. All of them are being tortured by various weird illnesses if they are still alive.

Tian Lan, who sent an article to a foreign media to disclose the sufferings of the petitioners, died.

Chen Shenqun, a retired teacher, died after petitioning.

Lao Ren, who did 14 years of "counter-revolutionary" petitioning, died.

Lao Zhu was a beekeeper. When he went for petitioning by train, the train stopped at half of the way for a week. His bees all died, and later he also died...

Rough translation :

The CCP's Public Security system ( Chinese police system ) in every region has an assassination department that secretly assassinates dissidents and harvests their organs for medical transplantation.

Zhao's family has three members, they lived in Luoyang New Village in Shanghai. All of them were murdered.

I am currently arranging the materials. In the near future, I will reveal the truth to the public, and to the world's governments and international institutions.

Zhao's mother is still alive, Zhao is her only son.

 

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Why does the Chinese Communist Party want to murder all family members of a political dissident ?

Because a child born in a dissident's family would have dissenting thoughts in his mind. The child would also become a dissident as he grows up.

In order to protect its ruling, the CCP must eliminate all potential threats, no matter how small the threats are.

With the same logic, the CCP would also try to deprive a dissident's ability of having children, by using remote radiation attacks, bio-chemical means, etc., to ensure the dissident will have no offsprings that would potentially challenge the CCP in the future.

Unlike Mao's era, nowadays the CCP usually does not kill a dissident and his family members openly and very quickly. Instead, by using remote radiation attacks, bio-chemical attacks, etc., the CCP tortures the dissident and his family members with various weird diseases, killing them slowly and gradually, without leaving any evidences.

 

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China: Secret “Black Jails” Hide Severe Rights Abuses

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Since 2003, large numbers of Chinese citizens have been held incommunicado for days or months in secret, unlawful detention facilities known as "black jails" by state agents who violate detainees' rights with impunity, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.

The 53-page report, "An Alleyway in Hell," documents how government officials, security forces, and their agents routinely abduct people off the streets of Beijing and other Chinese cities, strip them of their possessions, and imprison them. These black jails are often located in state-owned hotels, nursing homes, and psychiatric hospitals.

Human Rights Watch found that it is usually petitioners who are detained in black jails. These are citizens from mainly rural areas who come to Beijing and other provincial capitals seeking redress for abuses ranging from illegal land grabs and government corruption to police torture. Local officials, with the tolerance of public security authorities, establish the black jails as a way to ensure these complainants are detained, punished, and sent home so that these officials will not suffer demerits under rules that impose bureaucratic penalties when there is a large flow of petitioners from their areas.

Black jail guards routinely subject these detainees to abuses including physical violence, theft, extortion, threats, intimidation, and deprivation of food, sleep, and medical care.

A 46-year-old former detainee from Jiangsu province, who spent more than a month in a black jail, cried with fear and frustration as she recalled her abduction."[The abductors] are inhuman...two people dragged me by the hair and put me into the car. My two hands were tied up and I couldn't move. Then [after arriving back in Jiangsu] they put me inside a room where there were two women who stripped me of my clothes...[and] beat my head [and] used their feet to stomp my body," the former detainee said.

The majority of the former black jail detainees interviewed by Human Rights Watch said that they were abducted by individuals who provided no legal justification for detention or any information about detainees' eventual destination or possible length of detention. One 52-year-old petitioner from Liaoning province told Human Rights Watch: "I was detained by retrievers from [my home province of] Liaoning who were in plainclothes and never showed me any identification. I doubt they had any [official] identification. They never told me the reason why they detained me; they never even spoke to me and didn't tell me how long they were going to detain me for."

Black jail detainees are also subject to psychological abuse, including threats of sexual violence. A 42-year-old former detainee from Sichuan province was told by her black jail guards that if she attempted to escape they would "... take me to the male prison and let [the inmates] take turns raping [me]." Human Rights Watch also documented black jail guards' use of sleep and food deprivation and denial of needed medical care as a means of punishment or to control or elicit information from detainees. A 70-year-old former detainee from Hubei province resorted to a three-day hunger strike to compel her captors to allow her access to a doctor.

Minors under the age of 18 have been detained in black jails in blatant violation of China's commitments to the rights of children. One former detainee interviewed by Human Rights Watch was a 15-year-old girl, abducted from the streets of Beijing while petitioning on behalf of her crippled father, who was locked up in a nursing home in Gansu province for more than two months and subjected to severe beatings.

Black jails - Wikipedia

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According to human rights groups, black jails are a growing industry.

According to reporters visiting the jails, those detained inside them are beaten, starved, and sometimes hosed down with water.[15] 20 or 30 people may be forced to inhabit a single room, including those suffering from disabilities. Many are deprived of food, sleep, and medical care, and are subject to theft and extortion by their guards. They have no access to family members or to legal counsel or courts. Thousands of people are abducted off the streets of Chinese cities and held incommunicado for weeks or months in these conditions. The makeshift jails are found in state-owned hostels, hotels, nursing homes, and mental hospitals, among other locations.[16]

 

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Beijing's Black Jails

www.hrw.org

Petitioners are routinely abducted off the streets and held in these secret prisons where they may be subjected to physical, psychological and sexual abuse. Black jail detainees can be held from a few days to several months-and often have to bribe their way out of captivity.

Black jails are just one example of the willingness of China's state security agencies to perpetrate enforced disappearances - a crime under both Chinese domestic and international law - as a means of silencing citizens who challenge the authoritarian status quo.

“Black Jails:” China’s Growing Network of Illegal and Secret Detention Facilities | Chinese Human Rights Defenders

www.nchrd.org

These detention facilities operate completely outside China’s judicial system–they have no legal basis in Chinese law. The interception and detention of petitioners, in most cases involving beating and other forms of mistreatment, are carried out not by law enforcement officers, but by government officials. However, these operations take place under the eyes of the police, and often with their active cooperation. Detainees could be held incommunicado for months without charge, trial or access to legal counsel.

Evidence suggests that this shadowy system of interception of petitioners and their detention in black jails have become increasingly extensive and systematic. The establishment of centralized black jails for petitioners from all over the country, such as Ma Jia Lou and Jiu Jing Zhuang in Beijing would not be possible without some form of approval and possibly assistance from the Beijing municipal government. The fact that petitioners, once intercepted and detained in these centralized black jails, are then taken away by interceptors from their local jurisdiction and forcibly returned to their home towns or villages, also point to a well-organized, coordinated and swift system to catch and punish petitioners and activists.

At Ma Jia Lou, beatings of petitioners by interceptors are common occurrences. Petitioners are also fed poorly—they are given two meals of steamed buns and preserved vegetables every day.

The situation in Jiu Jing Zhuang is very similar to those in Ma Jia Lou—petitioners are poorly fed and routinely beaten by interceptors.

On October 14, Xu Zhiyong (许志永), a professor at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, visited the black jail after he received a phone call for assistance from a detained petitioner. The petitioner, Ma Xirong (马喜荣), was detained there with at least twenty others. Xu was unable to enter the jail and he was beaten by the guards. During the beating, one of the assailants shouted at Xu, “we are the government, what can we be afraid of? Do you want to call 110 [police hotline for emergency]? You can call now!”

Petitioners Thrown in 'Black Jails'

Chinese petitioners describe beatings, detentions in what they call the worst crackdown in years.

www.rfa.org

China’s army of petitioners say they are repeatedly stonewalled, detained in “black jails,” beaten, and harassed by authorities if they try to take complaints against local government actions to higher levels of government.

Many have been trying to win redress for alleged cases of official wrongdoing—including forced evictions, beatings in custody, and corruption linked to lucrative land sales—for decades.

"We were locked in the basement and got nothing to eat or drink, and we couldn't get out, and the security guards swore at us and beat us," Zhang said.

Beijing-based petitioner and rights lawyer Liu Anjun said the authorities are cracking down harder on petitioners in the capital this year, compared with previous years.

"This is probably the worst year yet, and many petitioners in Beijing are facing great hardship," Liu said. "Relief work for the petitioners has also run into a lot of obstacles."

 

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Political Psychiatry: How China Uses ‘Ankang’ Hospitals to Silence Dissent

Human rights groups have long charged that one of the crudest examples of illegality in Chinese criminal procedure is the political use of psychiatry to detain, imprison, and forcibly medicate dissidents and activists.

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Notably, human rights groups have long charged that one of the crudest examples of illegality in Chinese criminal procedure is the political use of psychiatry to detain, imprison, and forcibly medicate dissidents and activists.

The use of this tactic, borrowed from the Soviet Union early in the Maoist era, was reduced after the Cultural Revolution, but revived in 1987 with the creation of psychiatric hospitals, administered by the police, called Ankang (“peace and health”) institutions. Media reports throw light on the systematic violation of human rights in the psychiatric hospitals operated by China’s Ministry of Public Security.

According to Radio Free Asia, the China Rights Observer group has tracked more than 30 cases of activists “who were forcibly committed to psychiatric institutions in 2015, often without their relatives’ knowledge or consent.”

In an interview with Radio Free Asia, the group’s founder, Liu Feiyue, said that despite China’s passage of a Mental Health Law in 2012, authorities continue to send activists and petitioners to psychiatric hospitals, where they may face at times abusive conditions. RFA reported one case of a Shanghai petitioner who was detained on a petitioning trip to Beijing by ”interceptors” hired by Shanghai authorities. The petitioner was then forced to take medications, beaten, and tied to a bed for two days and nights.

China Continues to Use Psychiatric 'Treatment' on Its Critics: Report

Dozens more people are locked up for 'mental health treatment' in 2015, with many making repeated visits when authorities want to be rid of them.

www.rfa.org

Despite protections promised by a Mental Health Law passed by China in 2013, the country's medical profession has continued to collude with the authorities in carrying out psychiatric incarceration of critics of the ruling Chinese Communist Party, a rights group has said in a recent report.

But the practice of enforced psychiatric treatment for rights activists and persistent petitioners continued throughout 2015, the Hubei-based China Rights Observer group said in its annual report.

On Thursday, Shanghai petitioner Lu Liming told RFA he had been locked up in a psychiatric hospital in Beijing after being detained by police.

"I have no mental illness; I am normal ... and yet I was tied to a bed in the Changping Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine for two days and two nights," Lu said on his release.

"They also forced me to take a lot of medication while I was tied up there, so miserable I wanted to die," he said. "I am still in pain, and my head is still swollen from their beatings."

"Our report concludes that the practice of psychiatry is politicized by the fact that there are no curbs on government power, and so they can easily suppress people who are angry with them by using psychiatric hospitals."

"This is all part of the government's stability maintenance system, which is getting tighter and tighter ... because they fear anything that could threaten their grip on power, including petitioners," Liu said.

"Using psychiatric incarceration is only one of the weapons in their arsenal," he said.

Activists and petitioners "under treatment" have been detained, tied up, beaten, forced to wear manacles and leg irons, and forcibly fed psychoactive drugs, as well as denied access to the outside and to visits from their friends and family.

Hospitals often refuse to discharge such "patients" without the agreement of law enforcement agencies, and inmates are sometimes forced to sign "guarantees" that they will drop all further action against the government before being released.

Shanghai petitioner Zhu Jindi said her grown son was taken into a psychiatric hospital on Feb. 27, 2014 after getting into a dispute with another person, in spite of having had no history of mental illness.

"Inside there, they put him on the tiger bench [torture chair] from morning till night," she said. "He was also manacled, and he was tied hand and foot in restraints to his bed, to urinate and defecate on himself."

 

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“The Darkest Corners”: Abuses of Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment in China | Chinese Human Rights Defenders

www.nchrd.org

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people are detained against their will in China’s psychiatric hospitals because they have or are alleged to have, psychosocial disabilities. The involuntary commitment and forced medical treatment of such persons is a violation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Chinese Government Institutionalizes People Against Their Will: Chinese Human Rights Defenders

Every year, thousands of healthy Chinese are forcibly locked up and ‘treated’ in mental institutions, according to a new report by the Chinese Human Rights Defenders.

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Every year, thousands of healthy Chinese are forcibly locked up and ‘treated’ in mental institutions, according to a new report by the Chinese Human Rights Defenders.

The report goes on to say that many of those now involuntarily committed by state agents are petitioners, dissidents and activists, including some well-known critics of the government, with many subjected to forced medication and shock treatment. The report lists 40 cases of individuals it claims were detained in psychiatric institutions after petitioning or advocating human rights—it says the actual number of politically motivated commitments is “likely much higher.”

The report says that the purpose of confinement to a mental hospital is often a means to rein in critics of the government.

In one case documented by CHRD, a petitioner was held for more than a year even though an evaluation proved she had no psychosocial disability. According to the human-rights organization, the woman claimed that the doctors often advised her that she must accept an agreement with the government before she would be allowed to leave the hospital.

The report describes how human-rights lawyer Liu Shihui videotaped a nurse telling him that two petitioners whom he had come to visit in a psychiatric hospital could only be released if they agreed to stop petitioning the government.

The report goes on to say that lawyers who want to provide legal assistance to people being held in psychiatric hospitals are usually refused access to their clients, and they are also often threatened.

The Misuse of China’s Mental Hospitals

Feng Xiaoyan’s case shows how practices of involuntary hospitalization and adult guardianship can combine to lock away unfortunate victims – sometimes for life.

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It has long been known that China’s psychiatric facilities are routinely manipulated by government officials in order to silence political dissidents.

As Radio France Internationale, Human Rights in China, and The Globe and Mail have all reported, Feng’s confinement began shortly after she was picked up by Beijing police for distributing pro-democracy leaflets near Wangfujing in April. Her leaflets promoted, among other things, “democratic reform and reelection.”

Rather than taking Feng to their home, however, her husband took her to the Linyi No. 4 People’s Hospital. His decision to hospitalize her may have been encouraged by his former supervisor in the local government. In any event, Feng underwent involuntary admission and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Her daughter, who has been the primary source of information for all reports on this case, including our own, maintains that Feng is entirely sane. She says that, if her mother has any mental illness at all, it is the result of being improperly institutionalized and medicated.

It is now the eighth year since the passage of China’s Mental Health Law, the 19th year since China ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), and the 22nd year since China signed the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which it has not yet ratified.

 

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The CCP plans to use Chinese people to build a "Great Wall of Blood and Flesh" to protect the Red Aristocracy



The CCP has largely stopped issuing passports for Chinese civilians, and made it very difficult for Chinese people to go aboard even if they have valid passports and visas.

On the other hand, there are increasing cases that Chinese embassies in foreign countries refused to renew expired Chinese passports, making Chinese passport holders in foreign countries facing the risk of becoming illegal.

Moreover, the Chinese police system has basically stopped issuing No Criminal Record Certificate ( a key document for immigration / foreign residency application ) for Chinese civilians.

The CCP has many ways to "make good use of" China's huge population, one of them is using Chinese people as hostages, and the CCP is expert at this.

National Bureau of Immigration: Strictly control people's unnecessary cross-border activities
https://www.gqb.gov.cn/news/2020/1113/50075.shtml

国家移民局副局长尹成基12日表示，为外防输入，国家移民管理局严格控制不必要人员跨境活动。从严审批中国公民旅游等非必要事由的出入境证件申请，劝阻和限制内地居民旅游、探亲、访友等非必要、非急需出入境活动。

Rough translation :

China News Service, November 12th --- Yin Chengji, deputy director of the National Immigration Administration, said on the 12th that in order to prevent imports of Covid cases, the National Immigration Administration will strictly control unnecessary cross-border activities.

The authorities will strictly examine Chinese citizens' applications for entry / exit documents for non-essential reasons such as travel, etc., and discourage and restrict Chinese residents' entry and exit activities that are non-essential or non-urgent, such as traveling, visiting relatives abroad, meeting friends abroad, and so forth.

National Immigration Administration: Strictly control port passages & Tighten the management of border areas
https://www.nia.gov.cn/n794014/n794021/c1363017/content.html

'A policy alienating Tibetans' – the denial of passports to Tibetans as China intensifies control

1. Summary The Chinese authorities have intensified control over

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Very few Tibetans in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and in many other Tibetan areas have been issued passports in the past three years, and many people had their passports confiscated.

Denial of the ability to travel outside Tibet legally is used as a form of collective punishment; the family and friends of certain individuals such as former political prisoners, or people associated with Tibetans who have self-immolated or participated in protest, can also have passports denied or recalled.

Tibetan Passports Still Held by Chinese Authorities Despite Promises of Return

The move restricts travel by the Tibetan minority group despite official guarantees against discrimination.

www.rfa.org

Many of the Tibetans ordered home by China were told their families would be harmed if they failed to go back, sources told RFA in earlier reports.

And while the old passports, purchased at a cost of 5,000 yuan (U.S. $759) each and good for 10 years, have not been returned, no new passports are being issued, RFA’s source said.

“These discriminatory actions are confined not just to Tibetans but also affect members of the Uyghur nationality group,” the source said, adding that China’s constitution guarantees protection against discrimination based on ethnicity.

China confiscates passports of Xinjiang people

The Chinese authorities begin confiscating passports from people in the western region of Xinjiang.

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Chinese authorities have begun confiscating passports from people in the western region of Xinjiang, which has seen regular unrest.

China: Passports Arbitrarily Recalled in Xinjiang

The Chinese government’s new policy of recalling passports restricts foreign travel for many residents of Xinjiang. The policy gives police wide power to scrutinize residents’ proposed visits abroad.

www.hrw.org

“Chinese authorities have given no credible reason for taking away people’s passports, violating their right to freedom of movement,” said Sophie Richardson, China director.

“Seizing the passports of an entire region violates both Chinese and international law,” Richardson said. “It does nothing to combat crimes or produce the ‘stability’ Beijing says it wants. Authorities should immediately abandon these arbitrary, discriminatory policies.”

 

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As far as threats to the world's democracies go, the majority of those which have failed in the past and those which have failed or are failing in the present are doing so because of the willingness of their own citizens to accept strong man single party rule.

Regards, stay safe 'n well.

 

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As far as threats to the world's democracies go, the majority of those which have failed in the past and those which have failed or are failing in the present are doing so because of the willingness of their own citizens to accept strong man single party rule.

Regards, stay safe 'n well.

The Chinese people chose the CCP and therefore they deserve it —- this is a big lie that the CCP and CCP enablers want the whole world to believe, but the fact is, the CCP was enforced upon the Chinese people by foreign powers :

How the US helped create its most dangerous enemy - the Communist China

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