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Category: Human Rights in China

  • IOC must incorporate human rights values

    The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has failed to prevent human rights abuses surrounding the Beijing Games. Amnesty International calls on the IOC to prioritise human rights values in all future Olympic events.

  • Call for full investigation into attack on police

    In response to reports that an attack on a police station in Kashgar city, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, killed 16 police officers, Amnesty International called on the Chinese authorities to ensure that they conduct a full, immediate and impartial investigation of this incident.

  • Sites unblocked but still no freedom of expression

    "We welcome the news today that the authorities have lifted blocks on our website in the Olympics media venues and possibly elsewhere in Beijing," said Roseann Rife, Deputy Director for The Asia-Pacific Program at Amnesty International on 1 August.

  • IOC caves in to China’s demands on censorship

    "The International Olympic Committee and the Organizing Committee of the Beijing Olympic Games should fulfil their commitment to 'full media freedom' and provide immediate uncensored internet access at Olympic media venues. Censorship of the internet at the Games is compromising fundamental human rights and betraying the Olympic values," said Mark Allison, East Asia researcher for Amnesty International.

  • China’s ‘Great Firewall’ arrives in Sydney

    Ten days out from the start of the Beijing Olympic Games, Amnesty International will be encouraging Sydney-siders to tear down a 20-metre yellow wall at an event in Martin Place from 1pm to 2pm on Wednesday 30 July 2008.

  • Broken promises jeopardise Olympic legacy

    The Chinese authorities have broken their promise to improve the country's human rights situation and betrayed the core values of the Olympics, said Amnesty International in a new report published on 29 July, marking the 10 day countdown to the Games.

  • Internet censorship in China put to the test

    Amnesty International is calling on Australians to help monitor access to key websites in China over the coming months, to test the extent of Government control over the internet.

  • Ye Guozhu must be immediately released

    Amnesty International demanded the immediate release of Beijing housing activist Ye Guozhu on 23 July. He was due to be released on Saturday 26 July, but will now remain imprisoned until 1 October, after the end of the 2008 Olympic Games.

  • Thousands join human art petition

    On the eve of the anniversary of Beijing being granted the 2008 Olympics, Amnesty International supporters across the globe teamed up with Circle Up Now to create visual representations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as a reminder to the Chinese authorities of their human rights promises.

  • Joint survey ranks China lowest in human rights

    A joint survey between Amnesty International Australia and CHOICE has found that Australians are mindful of the ethical implications of products they purchase, but factors which affect them more directly are most important in determining what we buy.

  • Open letter to China’s President Hu Jintao

    Amnesty International's Secretary General Irene Khan has written an open letter to China's President Hu Jintao.

  • Most narrow Olympic Charter since 1968

    Amnesty International is concerned Australian athletes will be subjected to human rights violations at the Beijing Games, as the International Olympic Committee imposes the most narrow interpretation of the Olympic Charter since the Mexico summer Olympics in 1968.

  • Reaction to release of 1,157 people in Tibet

    Reaction to a report by Chinese media about the release of 1,157 people who were involved in the Tibet protests last march.

  • 1000 protesters unaccounted for in Tibet lock-down

    As the Olympic torch relay travels to Lhasa, Amnesty International today urged the Chinese government to provide information about the over 1,000 people detained during the protests last March and called for free access to Tibet by independent observers.

  • Freedom of expression muzzled by the Olympics

    In recent days, it has been reported that the AOC “has warned athletes that they will be breaking Chinese law if they bring an Amnesty International information pack on human rights abuses to the Beijing Games”.

  • Demanding the release of Tiananmen activists

    Tens of thousands of Amnesty International supporters across the world will today demand that the Chinese authorities release dozens of people held in jail since the Tiananmen protests 19 years ago.

  • Amnesty International Report 2008

    Amnesty International today challenged world leaders to re-commit themselves to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

  • 60 years of Human Rights failures

    Amnesty International's Report 2008 was launched on Wednesday 28 May. The report looks back on key events in 2007 and ahead to major human rights challenges for 2008, which is the 60th anniversary year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

  • Athletes allowed basic freedom of expression

    Amnesty International welcomes the decision by the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) to allow athletes greater freedom of expression, but urges them to do more to uphold the Olympic Charter.

  • World Press Freedom Day

    Amnesty International's Great Firewall of China will travel to Hobart this weekend, to symbolise the struggle for media freedom in China. World Press Freedom Day is an opportunity to celebrate and evaluate the fundamental right to expression, and Amnesty International calls on the Chinese authorities to end the persecution of journalists.

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