A survey of North Korean defectors indicates that regime forces labor camp inmates to produce goods for the Chinese market. The vast majority of prisoners who participated in the survey had been arrested for attempting to flee North Korea for China. As a matter of routine, Chinese authorities send captured North Korean defectors back to North Korea.
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Yu Yunfung, Chinese human rights activist, who was detained in a labor camp for two years for "disturbance of public order" and "opposing the Party and opposing socialism" plans to sue the government for illegal detention. Yu was held in the labor camps after texting a political poem to a friend.
Last week, the Chinese government reported that 27 people had died in a "terrorist attack" when a clash between ethnic minority group, Uyghurs, and the police force occurred.
Human Rights Watch urged Chinese authorities to stop the forcible relocation of Tibetans. The organization claims that Chinese authorities have relocated more than two million Tibetans in the past seven years.
According to Chinese official state media, 27 people died in Xinjiang province after police opened fire on 'knife-wielding mobs.' Official reports state that 17 people, 9 police and 8 civilians, had been killed prior to police opening fire on the crowd.
The novelist writer Ma Jian depicts her personal account of China's One-Child Policy, revealing the undeniable reality and damages still to come.
Liu Xia, the wife of Nobel Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, is suing Beijing police following her brother’s jailing. Liu’s lawsuit alleges that her house arrest is illegal under Chinese law. Liu is also preparing a petition urging authorities to grant her husband a retrial.
Earlier this week, China was downgraded by the U.S. survey of human trafficking across the globe to the lowest ranking. They have been downgraded from the Tier-2 watch list to the Tier-3 blacklist, raising the possibility of economic sanctions from the U.S. government.