tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10079932399575296692024-03-15T18:12:46.066-07:00Dui Hua Human Rights JournalCommentary, analysis, and translation about human rights and rule of lawsamanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710357190440110857noreply@blogger.comBlogger365125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007993239957529669.post-24676273162374627132024-03-06T09:56:00.000-08:002024-03-06T12:39:47.374-08:00Dui Hua Hits Important MilestoneImage credit: Dui HuaSince the Dui Hua Foundation was established in 1999, it has composed and handed over 500 written requests for information on prisoners to the Chinese government. The Chinese government has never refused to accept a list from Dui Hua. In the past 25 years, Dui Hua has asked about 2,210 prisoners, of whom 396 were females and 1,316 were males (gender is not known in all samanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710357190440110857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007993239957529669.post-53581047560097246562024-01-30T10:28:00.000-08:002024-02-06T10:30:11.929-08:00New Rules on Religion in Xinjiang: Comparing State Council and Provincial Congress Regulations The entrance to Ihlas Supermarket in the Kashgar city center in August 2018. Various banners and posters bearing political slogans in Mandarin and Uyghur, with slogans promoting speaking Mandarin and ethnic unity. Image credit: Kubilayaxun / CC BY-SA 4.0Near the end of 2023, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) issued new regulations on administrating religious affairs in the region. The samanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710357190440110857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007993239957529669.post-64989309099085231572024-01-18T10:04:00.000-08:002024-01-18T10:04:09.264-08:00The Surprise Success in Bridging the US & China is a Dialogue on Juvenile JusticeUS-China relations are thought to be all-time low since the two countries resumed engagement in the 1970s. But in one surprising area, the United State and China are benefiting from open, cordial, and productive dialogue: improving juvenile justice. In an article for Civic Research Insititute’s Juvenile Justice Update Winter 2024 edition, Dui Hua executive director John Kamm details the Dui samanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710357190440110857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007993239957529669.post-67269052003642205182024-01-11T10:09:00.000-08:002024-01-11T10:20:24.382-08:00From "Vineyard” to Prison: The House of Joseph A photo of Kunshan, Suzhou, where the House of Joseph has been known to operate. Image credit: Song Sangroov / CC BY 3.0 DEED Dui Hua continues to uncover information on Chinese religious groups following the release of its report “The Persecution of Unorthodox Religious Groups in China” in March 2022. Three new groups have been identified including the House of Joseph, or yuesejia (约瑟家) in samanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710357190440110857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007993239957529669.post-42892514818266410642023-11-13T10:40:00.000-08:002023-11-13T12:15:30.539-08:00APEC Summit Highlights Need for Stable RelationsAn APEC banner promoting the San Francisco summit. Image credit: APEC press kit When US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco this week, they will have lots to talk about. As at every meeting between Chinese and US leaders in recent years, Taiwan tops the agenda. Wars in Ukraine and the Middle East samanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710357190440110857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007993239957529669.post-27543397854525027232023-10-23T14:08:00.011-07:002023-10-23T15:48:16.190-07:00Turning over a New Leaf: Juvenile Offenders Benefit from ReformThe delegation from China's Supreme People's Court visiting the Juvenile Court of the City and County of San Francisco during Dui Hua’s first expert exchange in 2008. Image credit: Dui Hua This year marks the 15th anniversary of Dui Hua’s first expert exchange with the Supreme People’s Court (SPC) on juvenile justice, an area of concern around the globe. Beginning in 2008, Dui Hua has hostedsamanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710357190440110857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007993239957529669.post-18236016944854497402023-09-12T08:09:00.002-07:002023-10-23T13:45:03.435-07:00China’s 2022 Acquittal Rate Lowest in Two Decades A 2021 trial for a murder case, which was livestreamed on China Court Trial Online. Image credit: Kaifeng Intermediate People's Court, Henan Province Acquittal rates in China have always been low, but in 2022 the number decreased to a record low. According to the most recent China Law Yearbook, an annual official compendium released in 2023 that covers 2022, only 631 individuals (0.044The Dui Hua Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04062013055858521256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007993239957529669.post-55272443931702955182023-07-25T10:30:00.000-07:002024-01-06T16:11:05.908-08:00Public Sentencing Rallies during the PandemicThree Chinese nationals were executed in a public sentencing rally in Wa State, a Chinese-speaking region in Northern Myanmar on May 14, 2020. Image credit: The Paper In May 2020, a video clip featuring the execution of three men in a public sentencing rally in Wa State of Myanmar became a trending topic on domestic social media. The three executed men were Chinese nationals who had samanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710357190440110857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007993239957529669.post-86723634218345829722023-06-22T10:34:00.008-07:002023-10-23T13:44:07.622-07:00Promoter to Pariah: Xinling Famen’s “Unorthodox Buddhism” Junhong Lu giving the “Grand Dharma Talk” in Singapore’s National Stadium in 2017. Image credit: Ginny Gray / CC BY-SA 4.0 In March 2022, Dui Hua released a study titled “The Persecution of Unorthodox Religious Groups in China” identifying 41 religious groups whose members are at risk of arrest and imprisonment. Dui Hua has since uncovered another unorthodox religious group called Xinling samanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710357190440110857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007993239957529669.post-34155061084619738042023-05-09T12:03:00.000-07:002023-05-09T12:03:41.446-07:00UN Submission Focuses on Persecution of Women in Unorthodox ReligionsThe logo for the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, which monitors compliance with the Convention, both of which are abbreviated as CEDAW. Image credit: UN Office of the High Commission for Human Rights The number of women incarcerated in Chinese prisons has grown faster than the population of incarcerated men over the past decade, and women are disproportionately samanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710357190440110857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007993239957529669.post-22630920697079405782023-05-02T10:54:00.000-07:002023-05-02T10:54:08.781-07:00Eleven Years on the Lam: Indictment of a Tibetan “Robber” Barkhor Square in Lhasa, Tibet, on 22 September 2008. Image credit: Reurinkjan / CC BY 2.0 Protests swept across the Tibetan plateau ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. More than a decade later, China continues to track down and punish pro-independence protesters who took part in the unrest, some episodes of which turned deadly. An indictment uncovered by Dui Hua reveals how one protester samanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710357190440110857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007993239957529669.post-82593097913443582152023-04-06T10:51:00.011-07:002023-04-06T11:33:52.094-07:00Child Welfare with Chinese Characteristics, Part II: An All-of-Society Effort Image credit: The Dui Hua Foundation Read Part I: Rights & Responsibilities of Family & SchoolsThe revised Law of the People’s Republic of China on Protection of Minors (hereafter Protection of Minors Law) came into effect in June 2021, introducing 60 new articles into law. During Dui Hua’s Joint Program on Child Welfare Laws (JPCW) webinar in April 2022, experts from the samanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710357190440110857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007993239957529669.post-7386709503428607772023-04-04T10:52:00.007-07:002023-10-31T12:21:14.972-07:00Child Welfare with Chinese Characteristics, Part I: Rights & Responsibilities of Family & Schools Image credit: The Dui Hua FoundationOn June 1, 2021, the second revision of the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Protection of Minors (hereafter Protection of Minors Law) came into effect. The revision introduced 60 new articles into law. During the Joint Program on Child Welfare Laws (JPCW) webinar hosted by Dui Hua in April 2022, panelists from the Supreme People’s Court of China (SPC) samanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710357190440110857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007993239957529669.post-51018508990954215472023-03-01T10:23:00.001-08:002023-03-01T10:25:15.753-08:00Criminal Acts: Luzhou Armed Rioting CasesDaheidong Cave in Luzhou, Sichuan, where the Southwest Buddha League was headquartered in 1996. Image credit: Sogou The criminal acts of armed rebellion (武装叛乱) and armed rioting (武装暴乱), defined in Article 104 of the Criminal Law, are among the least understood crimes of endangering state security (ESS). They are also among the least frequently invoked in the country. Statistics published by samanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710357190440110857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007993239957529669.post-18582758518528112752023-02-17T09:59:00.002-08:002023-02-17T11:45:03.468-08:00Of Dialogues and Prisoner Lists This essay, written by Dui Hua Executive Director John Kamm, was originally published in the US-Asia Law Institute's journal USALI Perspectives, Volume 3, Number 16 on February 13, 2023. You can view the original posting here. As China prepares to resume bilateral human rights dialogues, a human rights advocate reflects on their record.In August 1989, just weeks after the Chinese samanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710357190440110857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007993239957529669.post-58148431793000243942023-02-14T10:42:00.004-08:002023-02-14T11:05:08.994-08:00Polls Suggest Stormy Waters for Biden, US-China Relations US President Joe Biden delivering the 2023 State of the Union Address on January 7, 2023 with Vice President Harris and House Speaker McCarthy seated behind him. Image credit: Public Domain Polling from the start of 2023 suggests that China is increasingly unpopular in the United States as well as in other regions. A majority of Americans are dissatisfied with the Biden administration’s samanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710357190440110857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007993239957529669.post-2356325105288529362022-10-11T10:43:00.006-07:002022-10-11T10:53:28.358-07:00Punishing Namāz Prayer in Prison, Part II: “Illegal Religious Activity” A photo of the Id Kah Mosque, the largest in China, in Kashgar, Xinjiang, taken in 2017. The photographer noted that worshippers had their ID cards recorded. Image credit: David Stanley / CC By 2.0 Part I of this article discussed existing laws and regulations limiting religious expression in China, and it explored the case of Ismayil Sidiq, a Uyghur farmer serving a 10-year prison sentence samanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710357190440110857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007993239957529669.post-8867895250326079142022-10-04T10:31:00.003-07:002022-11-28T16:15:11.578-08:00Punishing Namāz Prayer in Prison, Part I: “Sabotaging Prison Supervision”A clock hanging in a Turkish mosque showing Muslim prayer times. Image credit: LooiNL Muslims around the world are obliged to perform five daily prayers at dawn, midday, afternoon, sunset, and night. The ritual, commonly known as salah, is often called namazi (CN: 乃玛孜) in China, a Persian transliteration of namāz. Within China’s carceral system, all forms of religious worship, including samanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710357190440110857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007993239957529669.post-90695622133376434682022-09-20T11:17:00.000-07:002022-09-20T11:17:56.135-07:00Rare Sentence Reduction for Falun Gong Follower Shaoguan Intermediate People’s Court, which granted Yu a seven-month sentence reduction. Image credit: Baidu Maps Acts of clemency for Chinese religious and political prisoners have become increasingly rare in recent years. This decrease is the result of Xi Jinping’s hardline approach to both dissent and unorthodox religions, coupled with a sharp drop in judicial transparency. An exception samanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710357190440110857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007993239957529669.post-5819890874353611642022-07-20T10:50:00.005-07:002022-07-20T10:50:34.011-07:00“All People Act Together” Supporters Imprisoned, Part II: Public Disruption, Limited Reach A logo used by the APAT. Image credit: 時事能見度 YouTube page Read Part I here.The “All People Act Together” (APAT), or quanmin gongzhen (全民共振) social media campaign was launched in early 2018 by Chinese dissidents overseas. The campaign encourages rights defenders to engage in collective action and protests on days of importance to China and the Chinese Communist Party. Part I of samanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710357190440110857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007993239957529669.post-92119089175230599942022-07-14T10:15:00.006-07:002022-07-20T11:40:14.494-07:00"All People Act Together" Supporters Imprisoned, Part I: Social Media Campaign Draws IreA screenshot from a video about the “All People Act Together” campaign. Image credit: 一平論政 Youtube page “All People Act Together” (APAT), or quanmin gongzhen (全民共振), is a social media campaign launched in early 2018 by Chinese dissidents overseas. The campaign calls on rights defenders to collectively seek redress and make their voices heard by staging street protests across Chinese cities samanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710357190440110857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007993239957529669.post-58580691751152796112022-06-22T16:30:00.001-07:002022-06-23T11:27:36.709-07:00Patriotic Acts as Cause for Non-Prosecution Changle government building. Image credit: Google images Chinese prosecutors have the discretion not to indict an accused when the evidence is insufficient or when his/her perceived threat to society is minimal. However, these are not necessarily the most important reasons. Dui Hua’s research found that criminal suspects deemed patriotic can also avoid prosecution in mainland China. samanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710357190440110857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007993239957529669.post-82884911629156888592022-05-18T11:26:00.003-07:002022-05-19T11:21:19.831-07:00Crimes of Extremism, Part II: Harsh Sentences, Low Transparency in Xinjiang A Chinese propaganda poster denouncing extremism. In 2018, the poster went viral after a social media user noticed that one of the poster’s images condemning Islamic facial hair featured actor Keanu Reeves, who does not identify as Muslim. Image credit: Reddit via Taiwan News Read Part I here.Although ethnic minorities make up the majority of the extremism cases, there is a dearth of samanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710357190440110857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007993239957529669.post-73122853851024277242022-05-12T11:02:00.000-07:002022-05-12T11:02:24.882-07:00Crimes of Extremism, Part I: Observations on Use and SentencingScreenshot from a 2019 CGTN program titled Fighting Terrorism in Xinjiang. Image credit: CGTN Extremism, officially defined in Chinese law as the “ideological basis of terrorism”, or more broadly, “inciting hatred, discrimination or agitating violence through distorting religious doctrines or other means, has long been integral to China’s security policy against the “three evil forces” (i.e samanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710357190440110857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1007993239957529669.post-29881240582164315112022-04-26T11:04:00.007-07:002022-04-26T11:16:42.239-07:00Underground, Not Extinct: South China ChurchAn open letter from the daughters of Pastor Gong Shengliang to then-President George W. Bush. The letter includes a picture of the Gong family (Gong Shengliang seated bottom left). Image credit: Boxun News The lack of recent information about South China Church has led to questions about its continued existence. Dui Hua’s research, including a criminal judgment issued in 2016 involving its samanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06710357190440110857noreply@blogger.com