211. China: Show trials in the run-up to the plenary session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party   …In the run-up to the plenary session of China’s Communist Party, the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) has accused Chinese President Xi Jinping of relying on Mao’s terror methods to silence critics and competitors in…  

212. China: Europe must not forget the most prominent Uyghur prisoner!   … Peoples (STP) has appealed to Germany and the rest of Europe to use the human rights dialogue with China to call for a release of Ilham Tohti, the most prominent Uyghur prisoner.  

213. UN General Assembly elects new members to UN Human Rights Council   The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) fears that the UN Human Rights Council is about to lose credibility if it doesn’t show more commitment to human rights.  

214. China’s former Vice Minister of Public Security will be the next INTERPOL president   … has reacted to today’s election of Meng Hongwei, the former Vice Minister of Public Security in China, as INTERPOL President.  

215. China: Uighurs threatened to be deported to China   …Uyghurs refugees from China must be better protected against deportation.  

216. Security Council rejects arms embargo on South Sudan   The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) criticizes the World Security Council because, yesterday, the highest UN body had rejected an arms embargo against the conflict parties in southern Sudan.  

217. China: 500 nuns and monks expelled from Larung Gar   …According to the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP), China’s authorities have once again expelled 500 nuns and monks from the monastery and Buddhist teaching institute Larung Gar in Tibet.  

218. China: Tibetans are kept from taking part in Buddhist teachings of the Dalai Lama   …The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) has accused China’s authorities of systematically keeping Tibetan people from taking part in Buddhist teachings of the Dalai Lama.  

219. China: Commemorating the Gulja Massacre 20 years ago   … victims of the Gulja Massacre, which took place in East Turkistan / Xinjiang in the north-west of China 20 years ago.  

220. China / Vatican: Rapprochement does not mean that there will be religious freedom   … dispute over the right to appoint bishops – is no reason to hope for more religious freedom in China.