SENTINEL DEFENDERS BRIEFING
Human rights developments through the lens of defender protection, justice and accountability.
Issue #002 | 19 October 2026
This issue examines whether protec[……]
SENTINEL DEFENDERS BRIEFING
Human rights developments through the lens of defender protection, justice and accountability.
Issue #001 | 12 October 2026
This issue begins with[……]
For citizens of the People’s Republic of China, the constitutional right to stand for election promises representation. In practice, attempts to exercise this right can bring surveillance, harassment,[……]
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n a Hong Kong courtroom this year, a political slogan popularized in the 1980s was effectively put on trial. Prosecutors argued that calling for an “end to one-party rule” did not merely criticize th[……]
This official booklet combines the full text of the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China and the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Traditional Chinese, May 2021 editi[……]
Charter 08 is a Chinese citizens’ manifesto published in 2008 that calls for a democratic, constitutional, and human rights–based political system in China, inspired by Czechoslovakia’s Charter 77.
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The children of human-rights lawyers in China also suffer in the state’s relentless efforts to make their parents toe the line.
Originally published by Asia Democracy Chronicles ( https://adnchronicles[……]
尊敬的先生/女士： 2015年7月9日前後，中國全國發生了針對公民、人權律師、維權群體、信仰人士和社會活動人士的「709大抓捕」事件，全國三百多位律師和公民被捕，被約談，傳喚，甚至被監禁，他們的家屬也受到了牽連，遭受恐嚇威脅，除此，有近四十多位律師被限制出境。 目前，儘管被捕人士均已獲釋，但這些維權律師和人權行捍衛者們，仍然受到了嚴密監視，有的正在[......]
