Press Release

Our Faith and Perseverance Will Never Change: On the 32nd Anniversary of the June Fourth Massacre

[Translation by Human Rights in China] On June 4, 1989, in a time of peace, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, under the leadership and command of the ruling authorities, sent tanks, armored vehicles, and soldiers with live ammunition onto the ten-mile Chang’an Avenue in Beijing. Without...

June 1, 2021

Press Release

Government Accountability

Too Soon to Concede the Future: The Implementation of The National Security Law for Hong Kong--An HRIC White Paper

Against the troubling rights erosion made possible by the NSL and the political abandonment by the Hong Kong SAR government of its people are: the institutional and normative safeguards inherent in Hong Kong’s judicial and legal system, and the safeguards provided by international human rights...

October 16, 2020

Press Release

Government Accountability

Fifth Anniversary of 709 Crackdown: Updated Chart of Persecution of Lawyers and Legal and Rights Advocates

Many were charged with and convicted of “subversion of state power” and “inciting subversion of state power.” HRIC’s updated 709 case chart highlights the ongoing impunity of the Chinese authorities in violating the rights of rights defense professionals and activists, the right of an individual to...

July 9, 2020

Press Release

709 Crackdown

HRIC annotated bilingual chart of The Law of the People’s Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

HRIC has prepared an annotated bilingual chart of the NSL-HK to facilitate reading of the law and highlight the troubling, problematic aspects of the law, including…

July 5, 2020

Press Release

Access to Information

Tell the Truth, Refuse to Forget, Lies Written in Ink Cannot Conceal the Facts Written in Blood On the 31st Anniversary of the June Fourth Massacre

[English translation by Human Rights in China] “We have to ask the Chinese ruling party and the Chinese government: Which civilized Chinese law expressly confers the government the right to use state military force to kill, at will, students and civilians in peaceful demonstrations?

June 1, 2020

Press Release

Access to Justice

Mourning Our Families and Compatriots Killed in the June Fourth Massacre: A Letter to China’s Leaders

Members of the Tiananmen Mothers with photos of their loved ones killed in June Fourth. [English Translation by Human Rights in China] I We are a group of citizens who lost our loved ones in the June Fourth Massacre. Thirty years ago, along Chang'an Avenue in front of the Tiananmen Gate in the...

March 15, 2019

Press Release

Communist Party Of China

Open Letter to Xi Jinping from the Tiananmen Mothers

On the occasion of the 29th anniversary of June Fourth, the Tiananmen Mothers authorize Human Rights in China to publish this open letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping. The full text of the open letter is as follows. [Translation by Human Rights in China] Dear President Xi Jinping: This year...

May 31, 2018

Press Release

Government Accountability

Ding Zilin

An Essay on the 28th Anniversary of the June Fourth Massacre

At the request of the Tiananmen Mothers, Human Rights in China (HRIC) is issuing the following essay by the group to commemorate the victims of June Fourth on its 28th anniversary. An Essay on the 28th Anniversary of the June Fourth Massacre The Tiananmen Mothers June 1, 2017 [Translation by Human...

June 1, 2017

Press Release

Government Accountability

Tiananmen Mothers: No Amount of Power Can Rub Out June Fourth

At the request of the Tiananmen Mothers, Human Rights in China issues the following essay by the group in remembrance of their loved ones who were killed in June Fourth 1989. On the 27th Anniversary of the June Fourth Massacre The Tiananmen Mothers June 1, 2016 [Translation by Human Rights in China...

June 1, 2016

Press Release

June Fourth

China at the UN: Shouting Down the Critics

In a statement to the Human Rights Council today, the Chinese Ambassador to the U.N., Fu Cong, accuses “certain Western countries” of pursuing a policy of “new interventionism . . . under the banner of human rights and humanitarianism.” He also warns the Council itself from being used as a tool to...

March 15, 2016

Press Release