271. China: No more kitchen knives in Xinjiang – but more tanks, raids and denunciations   "Helpless" and "absurd" is what the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) calls a decision of the Chinese authorities to confiscate all large kitchen knives in Xinjiang (East Turkestan). Following the  

272. China: New report on forced labor in cotton harvest   New report on forced labor in cotton harvest: German government should urgently pass a supply chain law Companies in the sector are unable to ensure that they don't profit from forced  

273. China: More than 80 civil rights activists detained to prevent public commemoration   … on Tiananmen Square in order to prevent any public commemoration of the massacre on June 4, 1989. "China's leadership won't stop at anything to enforce a dead calm peace on Tiananmen Square: kidnappings,…  

274. China: More restrictions on freedom of the Internet for Uyghurs   The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) is deeply concerned about plans of the Chinese Internet Authority (CAC) to make the Communist Party of the People’s Republic the “strongest voice on the  

275. China: More commitment to human rights of the Uyghurs needed   … Initiative have appealed to Chancellor Angela Merkel to show commitment for the Uyghur people in China.  

276. China: Microsoft should stop cooperating with Chinese AI developers   The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) demands the software company Microsoft to suspend its cooperation with the Chinese company that developed the AI-based face recognition software that is used  

277. China: Maas should demand free access to Tibet   The Society for Threatened Peoples has asked Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas to use the meeting of the UN Human Rights Council (starting in Geneva on February 25) to address the human rights  

278. China: Liu Xia is allowed to leave the country – A long overdue humanitarian gesture   … relieved that Liu Xia, the widow of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, is now allowed to leave China.  

279. China: Life Sentence Against the Uyghur Professor Ilham Tohti   … Peoples (STP) sharply criticizes the life sentence against the Uyghur professor Ilham Tohti in China. "This is an unjust ruling – a politically motivated sham to silence unwanted critics," said…  

280. China: Investigations against publisher of a CP-loyal newspaper and critic of religious persecution   … country – the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) warned that violations of religious freedom in China should not be ignored.