In June, an unprecedented group of 50 UN Special Procedure mandate-holders issued a joint statement on China, calling for “renewed attention on the human rights situation in the country” as a matter of urgency, including through a special session of the UN Human Rights Council on China, and the creation of an international mechanism to address rights violations in the country. In July, the US government sanctioned top Chinese officials responsible for Xinjiang abuses. In April, reports of Africans in China being targeted for Covid-19 testing led to complaints by African governments and civil society. Governments, civil society groups, and United Nations officials expressed growing concern over the Chinese government’s human rights violations in 2020. Entrepreneur Ren Zhiqiang wrote an essay calling Xi “a clown who desires power,” while former Central Party school teacher Cai Xia called the Chinese Communist Party a “political zombie.” Ren received an extraordinarily lengthy prison sentence-18 years-in September Cai fled into exile. In Inner Mongolia, protests broke out in September when education authorities decided to replace Mongolian with Mandarin Chinese in a number of classes in the region’s schools.Ĭhinese authorities’ silencing of human rights defenders, journalists, and activists, and restrictions on the internet, also make it difficult to obtain accurate information about Chinese government policies and actions.ĭespite these threats some prominent individuals publicly criticized President Xi Jinping. In Xinjiang, Turkic Muslims continue to be arbitrarily detained on the basis of their identity, while others are subjected to forced labor, mass surveillance, and political indoctrination. In Hong Kong, following six months of large-scale protests in 2019, the Chinese government imposed a draconian “National Security Law” on June 30-its most aggressive assault on Hong Kong people’s freedoms since the transfer of sovereignty in 1997. The government has rejected international calls for independent, unfettered investigations into Chinese authorities’ handling of the outbreak, and surveilled and harassed families of those who died of the virus.īeijing’s repression-insisting on political loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party-deepened across the country. Authorities initially covered up news about the virus, then adopted harsh quarantine measures in Wuhan and other parts of China.
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The Chinese government’s authoritarianism was on full display in 2020 as it grappled with the deadly coronavirus outbreak first reported in Wuhan province.
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