Taiwanese pro-unification academic Tsai Jin-shu, who has been detained in China on spying charges since 2018, is reportedly still unable to return to Taiwan...
News that detained Taiwanese businessman Morrison Lee Meng-chu has been freed in China from his jail term, but remains unable to return to Taiwan broke yesterday...
Civil society groups demonstrated on Friday, March 18th to call for the release of imprisoned Taiwanese human rights activist Lee Ming-che in China. The demonstration took place the night prior to the fifth anniversary of Lee’s detention, which took place after he crossed into China from Macau on March 19th, 2017...
Academic Wu Rwei-ren has been accused by pro-Beijing media in Hong Kong earlier this month of violating the national security law that was passed in June 2020. The law targets what it considers acts of separatism or sedition and was passed by China’s National People’s Congress, circumventing the Hong Kong legislative council. Wu is an associate research fellow at Academia Sinica...
Civil society organizations rallied earlier this week, to call attention to the continued plight of Lee Ming-che. Lee, a human rights NGO worker who was kidnapped while entering China from Macau in March 2017, has now been imprisoned for four-and-a-half years...
The Ta Kung Pao, a Hong Kong-based pro-Beijing newspaper, reported over the last week that the Chinese government is planning on creating a list of individuals of Taiwanese independence advocates that it will seek to imprison...
Some have hailed the end of sham democracy in Hong Kong, with the remaining fifteen pan-Democratic legislators in the Hong Kong Legislative Council resigning en masse yesterday. The resignation took place in order to protest China’s National People’s Congress passing a resolution allowing the Hong Kong government to bypass courts in order to remove lawmakers from office as it deems fit...
The Hong Kong government continues with efforts to repress political freedoms in Hong Kong, with four pan-Democratic legislators among the latest to be disqualified from political office today...
