Sophie Richardson’s Tweets

Jan 13

Dear

@mbachelet

, Here's

's latest report on #crimesagainsthumanity targeting #Uyghurs. Where's yours? Best,

China: Xi’s �?New Era’ Marked by Rights Abuses

China: Xi’s �?New Era’ Marked by Rights Abuses

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Linda Lakhdhir

@LLakhdhir

11h

“Once again the Chinese government’s wrongful imprisonment of a Tibetan risks becoming a death sentence,” says

, calling for the release of and urgent medical care for Tibetan monk Go Sherab Gyatso. hrw.org/news/2022/02/0

Kazakhstan:

on 8 Feb urged foreign minister Mukhtar Tileuberdi to set up independent inquiry into January events including foreign experts; needed to ensure the inquiry is seen as credible given Kazakhstan's poor accountability record

Kazakhstan: Set Independent Inquiry into January Events

Kenneth Roth

@KenRoth

14h

Kazakhstan has announced investigations to examine the January events, but it has a long history of such efforts not yielding accountability. To ensure credibility, the government should invite international experts to join domestic investigators:

@HRW

. hrw.org/news/2022/02/0

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youdon aukatsang

@YoudonAukatsang

18h

“Once again the Chinese government’s wrongful imprisonment of a Tibetan risks becoming a death sentence,” said

, China director at Human Rights Watch. Demanding urgent medical care to scholar Go Sherab Gyatso! #FreeTibet #MakeChinaAccountable #IWillNotWatch

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Human Rights Watch

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Elaine Pearson

@PearsonElaine

17h

Chinese agents detained Tibetan monk Go Sherab Gyatso in October 2020 in Chengdu & transferred him to Lhasa, where he was later formally charged with “inciting secession.” His health is in peril, he should be released immediately & unconditionally. hrw.org/news/2022/02/0

Uyghur Human Rights Project

@UyghurProject

D.C. restaurant owner brings awareness to Uyghur plight

"I had a very beautiful life in my country before," Kerim said. "But now everything has changed." Check out Dolan Uyghur Restaurant in Washington, DC!

gwhatchet.com

I talked with Hamid Kerim, the owner of Dolan Uyghur Restaurant, to hear about his experience escaping Xinjiang and opening a restaurant.

Democracy Now!

@democracynow

While many have commended China's "zero-COVID policy," the emphasis on keeping infection rates low is distracting from other kinds of suffering, says Yaqiu Wang (

@Yaqiu

), senior China researcher at Human Rights Watch (

@HRW

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#北京冬奥来临前，北京居民不得不“让路”——没有发言�?，更没有决定�?。随着北京市为�?动�?的�?�来�?�准备，当局着手根除疫�?�。凡�?�购买一�?�感冒药的�?��?接受病毒筛检，导致民众被迫在冰天雪地大排长龙等候检测。当局�?劝导居民不�?返乡过农历年，因为�?�节�?�期�?�好撞上冬奥会。

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中国当局再度展现�?残酷无�?�’

Tom Kellogg

@tom_kellogg

Ex-BofA lawyer jailed in Hong Kong over police assault allegations

Another excellent piece from

@ThomasHHChan

@ftchina

on the Samuel Bickett case -- a deeply troubling verdict, one that raises serious questions about the rule of law in HK, especially in cases involving the police. (1/x)

ft.com

American Samuel Bickett loses appeal in case that symbolises erosion of rule of law, analysts say

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Uyghur Human Rights Project

@UyghurProject

Opinion | We can’t fail the Uyghurs as the world failed us

"This is our Never Again moment — and it will continue long after the Olympic Games end." Rachel "Rae" Goldfarb, a Holocaust survivor, and

@NaomiKikoler

, Director of

@HolocaustMuseum

's Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide

@CPG_USHMM

forward.com

After 1945, we would have expected that a potentially genocidal state would not be allowed to host the Olympics. But they are.

GreatFire.org

@GreatFireChina

21h

Posts on WeChat mocking the men's football team are being censored. freewechat.com/a/MzIyNzc3ODk0

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Shen Lu

@shenlulushen

· Feb 7

China’s women soccer team won Women’s Asian Cup. It’s a perfect opportunity to mock the men’s team. Artist Tango’s illustration below is widely shared online.

For more on

stunnjng work on #Olympics #protestart:

Videos: Human Rights and the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

In the run up to the start of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics on February 4, 2022, Human Rights Watch has released five videos th

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Mei Fong/ 方凤美

@meifongwriter

21h

As someone who’s ethnically Chinese & whose organization

comissioned

to produce #Olympic videos I can say it’s not about race. It’s about #humanrights. #CrimesAgainstHumanity.

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巴丢草 Badiucao

· Feb 8

My talk on @CNN with @brikeilarcnn about the incident how my Olympic portest art #Beijing2022 is censored in GWU @GWtweets due to smear campaign of CSSA

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#彭帅在社交媒体发出一篇留言，指控中国政府�?�?对她性侵，随即从中国互�?�网上被彻底�?失。虽然 #北京冬奥的选手大�?�不�?�中国�?动�?，[发声抗议]仍有风险。中国政府已扬言动用条文模糊的法律法规，因此�?�认为这也�?�一种警讯。- 人�?观察

@Yaqiu

0:46

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Renee Xia

@ReneeXiaCHRD

What #China gov is doing with a #Uyghur woman bearing

@Olympic

torch is more than politicizing the Games: It's also sexism - exploiting a woman's "smiling face and youthful figure" for sportswashing crimes against humanity.

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· Feb 8

Bearing an Olympic Torch, and a Politically Loaded Message - Chinese state media declared after the opening ceremony that Yilamujiang, a Uyghur skier, had “showed the world a beautiful and progressive Xinjiang” with her “smiling face and youthful figure.” nytimes.com/2022/02/08/spo

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China Commission

@CECCgov

22h

#ZhangHaitao was given a 19-year prison sentence for posting online opinions critical of Chinese government policies and for giving interviews to overseas media. His lawyer and spouse report that he was tortured and mistreated in detention. #OlympicPrisoner

Again and again and again: this man, Go Sherman Gyatso, has broken no law. He is a monk and a scholar. And like far too many others, he at risk of dying in detention. #China: Imprisoned #Tibetan Monk’s Health in Peril hrw.org/news/2022/02/0

China: Imprisoned Tibetan Monk’s Health in Peril

China Digital Times

@CDT

Wailing Wall Wishes on the Second Anniversary of Dr. Li Wenliang’s Death - China Digital Times (CDT)

Wailing Wall Wishes on the Second Anniversary of Dr. Li Wenliang’s Death "Dr. Li, we can’t even mention you on Baidu Tieba anymore. They’re still only allowing one voice."

chinadigitaltimes.net

“A healthy society shouldn’t have only one voice.” — Dr. Li Wenliang February 7 marked the second anniversary of the death of Dr. Li Wenliang, the courageous young ophthalmologist at the Central...

Embarrassingly past time.

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Phil Lynch

@PhilALynch

· Feb 8

It’s past time for the @UNHumanRights chief @mbachelet to release her report on serious human rights violations in #Xinjiang . twitter.com/loucharbon/sta…

Lhadon ལྷ་སྒྲོན།

@lhadon

China encroaching along Nepal border - report

Until 2008: 2,200 Tibetans escaped/yr 2021: 7 made it out They can't even escape. "About 20,000 Tibetan refugees live in Nepal...Over recent years, China has tried to cut off this escape route." #IWillNotWatch

bbc.com

A Nepalese government report leaked to the BBC accuses China of interference in the country's territory.

Fantastic interview,

. Couldn’t agree more w all your pts! Let’s see what

@GWtweets

does next. #China #academicfreedom

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巴丢草 Badiucao

· Feb 8

My talk on @CNN with @brikeilarcnn about the incident how my Olympic portest art #Beijing2022 is censored in GWU @GWtweets due to smear campaign of CSSA

5:29

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My talk on

with

about the incident how my Olympic portest art #Beijing2022 is censored in GWU

@GWtweets

due to smear campaign of CSSA

5:29

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From

Brianna Keilar

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I spoke on

about the #GenocideOlympics (#Beijing2022 ) and how China is using this opportunity to sportswash its human rights abuses. #NoBeijing2022 #BoycottBeijingOlympics #IWillNotWatch

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Rayhan E. Asat

@RayhanAsat

China’s online campaign to shift the narrative on Xinjiang

Please join this important discussion on disinformation and technology with

@nytimes

's award-winning journalist

@paulmozur

whose remarkable journalism has exposed some of the most egregious human rights abuses of our times in China.

atlanticcouncil.org

A conversation on the Chinese Communist Party’s digital authoritarianism with New York Times award-winning journalist Paul Mozur, moderated by Nonresident Senior Fellow Rayhan Asat.

💯certain this accurately reflects the views of foreign journalists covering

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@wang_maya

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Maya Wang 王松莲

@wang_maya

· Feb 7

Journalist asks what it takes for the truth to come out wrt #PengShuai. Let's take a moment to recall that many in China, e.g. parents of kids crushed under sub-standard school buildings during 2008 Sichuan earthquake, are still waiting for the truth. twitter.com/i/events/14905

Emily Feng 冯哲芸

@EmilyZFeng

Uyghur kids recall physical and mental torment at Chinese boarding schools in Xinjiang

THREAD: Since 2017, I've met dozens of Uyghurs searching for their kids, many who'd been sent to boarding schools. What these schools were like was a mystery, gleaned from text messages, social media & state docs -- until 2 brave kids shared their story.

npr.org

Being hit, locked in a dark room and forced to hold a stress position — two small Uyghur children recount abusive experiences in boarding school in Xinjiang, where they also lost their mother tongues.

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�?Urgent that

take this step now.

has seen too many schools make these kinds of mistakes, admit error, and move on. They don't realize that they've only just seen the tip of an iceberg.

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· Feb 8

4. Students who put up posters and inform me incident are still worried be doxed & revenged by groups like CSSA / CCA. GW should look into the intimidating behaviours from those groups & protect students, especially Chinese students form harassment & manipulation of these groups.

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wta

@WTA

Steve Simon, WTA Chairman & CEO on Peng Shuai’s recent interview

“It’s always good to see Peng Shuai, whether in an interview or attending the Olympic Games. However, her recent in-person interview does not alleviate any of our concerns about her initial post from November 2nd. We continue to hold firm on our position."

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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

@hkfp

BREAKING: A Hong Kong court has dismissed an appeal by US lawyer Samuel Bickett, who was jailed for assaulting a police officer during the 2019 protests and unrest.

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#BREAKING per

in court, High Court judge Esther Toh dismissed appeal by

@SamuelBickett

against both the conviction and 4.5-month jail term sentence a magistrate handed down last year over a case of assaulting police. Bickett is sent back in custody immediately.

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Replying to

also created these series of cool videos on the Olympics for

in similar vein to the GWU posters.

Videos: Human Rights and the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

In the run up to the start of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics on February 4, 2022, Human Rights Watch has released five videos th

Terrific

story on

president statement reversing decision to remove

#Beijing2022 Olympics art, quoting

@HRW

@wang_maya

"My art is always targeting the Chinese Communist Party--never the Chinese people suffering from this regime"--

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B. Allen-Ebrahimian

@BethanyAllenEbr

· Feb 7

New: The president of George Washington University has reversed his earlier decision to remove campus posters protesting the Beijing Olympics, which Chinese student groups had said "incited racial hatred and ethnic tensions." axios.com/olympic-protes

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Elaine Pearson

@PearsonElaine

Governments should be deeply troubled by what's happening to Hong Kongers exercising their basic rights. Even an Australian-Chinese citizen is charged under Hong Kong's draconian National Security Law & could face up to life in prison for 'subversion'. abc.net.au/news/2022-02-0