In a joint effort, journalists and human rights activists have pressed for the release of Chinese Covid blogger Zhang Zhan. On Monday morning, journalists as well as Amnesty International, the authors’ association PEN, Reporters Without Borders, the German Journalists’ Union and the German Journalists Associationflooded short message service Twitter with corresponding posts.The tweets are coupled […]
Streaming provider Disney+ has removed China-critical episode from cartoon series The Simpsons from its Hong Kong service. The 2005 episode is about a visit to Beijing by the bug-eyed US cartoon family and draws various satirical connections to the Tiananmen Square massacre, nation founder Mao Zedong or the occupation of Tibet.The episode, for example, features […]
Disclaimer: This interview has been translated into English and is not considered an official translation by any party involved in the interview.Mr. Lyncker, next year Zhou Guanyu will be the first Chinese to drive for Alfa Romeo in Formula 1, the world’s most prestigious and lucrative motorsport racing series. Did the news come as a surprise to you?Only to a certain extent. Zhou brings the greatest possible talent. Having started out in karting, he […]
His fight for an independent Hong Kong has ended for 20-year-old Tony Chung with a years-long prison sentence for the time being. A court sentenced the activist to three and a half years behind bars after he pleaded guilty to charges of secession. Chung was the founder and chairman of the Student Localism movement. It […]
Sleep deprivation, beatings, and hours of cross-legged sitting: for 70 days in 2011, human rights lawyer Teng Biao was psychologically and physically tortured by Chinese security forces. For 70 days, the now 48-year-old disappeared from the face of the earth – locked away in a hotel that the police and state security had converted for […]
The case of Peng Shuai is also on our minds in the second edition of China.Table Human Rights. We spoke with the Chinese human rights lawyer Teng Biao, who knows from his own experience what means the state security uses to put abducted persons under psychological pressure.Listening to what Teng has to say, you wouldn’t […]
The case of Peng Shuai puts German sports in a quandary only months before the Winter Olympics in Beijing (February 4-20, 2022). In response to an inquiry by China.Table, the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) issued a statement. However, it is rather ambiguous. Caught between “responsibility towards the athletes” and its “socio-political responsibility”, the association […]
In Hong Kong, a democracy activist has been sentenced to a long prison term for the second time under the National Security Act. The 31-year-old was accused of shouting slogans at at least 20 gatherings between August and November 2020 and also spreading them via social media. He called for the city’s independence from the […]
As if on cue, the Communist Party delivers a prime example of its dramatically poor human rights record at the first edition of China.Table Human Rights. The case of tennis player Peng Shuai shows how little interest the regime has in public clarification when accusations are made against a top cadre.It is therefore all the […]
China plans to fully vaccinate all children between the ages of three and eleven against Covid-19 by the end of the year. The National Health Commission recently announced that more than 84 million children in this age group had already received the first vaccination. The vaccination for children is voluntary, the education ministry said. A […]