Last week, Italian authorities issued expulsion orders for eight Chinese nationals from Schengen territory on national security grounds. According to news reports, three have been deported immediately, while four others had already left the Italian territory. One individual reportedly remains in custody on grounds of a pending asylum application.
This is an op-ed by Martin Moore, senior lecturer in Political Communication Education and Director of the Centre for the Study of Media, Communication, and Power at King’s College London; and Thomas Colley, senior visiting research fellow in War Studies at King’s College London and senior lecturer at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.
The EU has imposed tighter border controls on imports of a baby milk ingredient from China after it was singled out as the source of a major contamination scare, according to a text published this week.
A decision not to charge a man who fathered children with a woman with a mental illness has set off a debate about rape, consent and China’s push for babies.
Guan Heng, who exposed human rights abuses in his native China, has been in U.S. custody since being swept up in an immigration enforcement operation in August. He says he dares not even think about what would happen to him if he were sent back.
Iranian authorities are refusing to allow an independent medical examination of Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi after she was beaten during her arrest last week, her family said on Tuesday.
The daughter of Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy tycoon jailed in Hong Kong, has expressed concerns about her father’s deteriorating health in prison, saying that his fingernails “sometimes fall off” and his teeth are rotting.
The Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights and the Canada Tibet Committee call on Chinese authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Zhang Yadi, a 22-year-old Tibetan culture and rights activist and Chinese international student.
India has issued a strong diplomatic protest to China after an Indian woman from Arunachal Pradesh was detained and allegedly harassed for more than 18 hours while transiting through Shanghai Pudong International Airport. The incident has triggered a fresh diplomatic confrontation between the two countries.
Two months after her new sentence of four more years in prison, Zhang Zhan - the blogger and Christian human rights activist who first reported on the pandemic in Wuhan - has been moved without warning to a new detention facility with no possibility of contact with her family.
A 22-year-old Chinese student in France, who was supposed to be starting a master’s degree in anthropology at the prestigious School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) University of London, has not returned from a summer visit to her family in Changsha, China.
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