Human Rights Watch has documented and advocated on their behalf for over three decades. Since then, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) brutality has shocked the world but failed to subdue veteran human rights activists like Gao Zhisheng and Ding Jiaxi. The CCP has also failed to suppress the rise of a new generation of human rights activists. We are living in a grim period for human rights in China, but there are reasons for hope. Xu was a leader of the human rights group Rose China, and had campaigned for the release of many high-profile human rights activists.

Source: The Guardian April 27, 2023 01:06 UTC