When visiting China, Swedish Foreign Minister Malmer Stenergard should focus on 1) human rights and growing Chinese repression including in Xinjiang and 2) Chinese transnational repression, to secure the release of bookseller Gui Minhai.

www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

😧 The EP Omnibus I revision on #CSDDD passed, erasing the harmonized EU civil liability framework.

⚡ During upcoming Trialogues, @hrw.org calls on all negotiators to reintroduce it and ideally strengthen what is left of the CSDDD
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

#France : Lundi prochain, le procès de Dilnur Reyhan, accusée d'avoir participé à un acte de protestation contre le gouvernement chinois à la Fête de l'Humanité en 2022 doit avoir lieu.

Personne ne devrait être poursuivi pour avoir manifesté pacifiquement.
www.hrw.org/fr/news/2025...

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🔗Read our joint letter : hrw.org/news/2025/07...
@claudiofrancavilla.bsky.social, @kderderian1.bsky.social,
@fbermingham.bsky.social

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⏳ The Summit is a moment of truth.
Will the EU stand with victims & survivors—or let repression go unchallenged?

Read the full joint letter from
@amnesty.org, @hrw.org; @hrw-brussels.bsky.social, @fidh-official.bsky.social, @uyghurcongress.bsky.social,
@omctorg.bsky.social & many others.

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🇪🇺 After 50 years of EU-China relations, it's time for the EU to take a hard look at reality:
Human rights in China are in free fall. It’s time for new strategies—not business as usual.

#EUChina #HumanRights

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📜 The EU must demand the repeal of abusive laws like:
— The Hong Kong National Security Law
— “Picking quarrels” & “subversion” charges
— Secret detentions under “residential surveillance”

These violate China’s own treaty obligations.

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🕯️ Protecting freedom of religion and belief must include defending Tibetan religious traditions—like resisting interference in the selection of the next Dalai Lama.

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🌍 The EU should lead on ending transnational repression, including Chinese surveillance, intimidation & harassment of activists in Europe.
These abuses affect not just Chinese citizens, but global civil society.

#StopTNR

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🛑 They call for the immediate release of detained human rights defenders, including:
Gui Minhai 🇪🇺
Ilham Tohti
Ding Jiaxi
Xu Zhiyong
Zhang Zhan
…and dozens more.

Silence is complicity.

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✊ The EU has spoken out before—on Xinjiang, detentions of rights defenders, and the repression in Hong Kong—but words are not enough. The current approach hasn’t stopped Beijing’s abuses.

#HumanRights must be a top priority at the Summit.

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🇨🇳 Under Xi Jinping, Chinese authorities have escalated a systematic assault on human rights—from arbitrary detention & torture to transnational repression reaching into Europe.

Europe must respond with clarity and courage.

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Ahead of the #EUChinaSummit (July 24), leading human rights orgs are calling on EU leaders to put human rights at the core of their China strategy. Here's what they’re urging Presidents @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu & @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu to do 👇

New Report: "Risk at the Source" by
Global Rights Compliance exposes how #UyghurForcedLabor is linked to critical minerals supply chain, feeding aerospace, automotive, battery, defense, medical, & electronics industries, at the cost of crimes against humanity.

apnews.com/article/chin...

Breaking‼️ While imprisoned under one trumped-up charge, Joshua Wong has been suddenly slapped with yet another as the authorities appear intent on keeping one of Hong Kong's most influential democracy leaders behind bars. This decision is arbitrary, cruel, and outrageous.

[email protected] reiterates its regrets that the European Union continues to hold its human rights dialogue with China and call for the human rights dialogue to be suspended and replaced by more meaningful and impactful measures.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...

Lengthy exchange at the commission's press briefing today about the softening EU stance towards China and Xi's visit to Moscow

Spox says: "We've taken note of the visit. We have also made our position quite clear. In terms of China's support to Russia's illegal war of aggression against Ukraine...

The Trump administration’s first 100 days in office have been a relentless barrage of actions that violate, threaten, or undermine human rights.

To illustrate the breadth and depth of damage, HRW has compiled 100 harmful actions during these 100 days ⤵️

China's reportedly dropping its retaliatory sanctions to court EU. If so, EU has leverage over China. It should press China to end crimes against humanity, free the hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs in prison & end forced labor www.linkedin.com/posts/noahba...

❗🚨❌ Hier, la Commission européenne a publié sa proposition de loi "omnibus" qui affaiblirait considérablement les dispositions sur le devoir de vigilance des entreprises dans l'UE en matière de droits humains et d’environnement dans leurs chaînes d’approvisionnement.

@hderengerve.bsky.social‬ ⤵

With the #Omnibus published, the Commission sides with giant corporations rather than victims of corporate abuse.

Under the pretense of ‘simplification’, the Commission’s guts its own achievements on corporate accountability & abdicates principled leadership in advancing a #sustainable economy.

📢 In Brussels, we say #NoToOmnibus!
Today, @hrw.org reiterates its call on President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu and Commissioners @vdombrovskis.bsky.social and Sejourne not to reopen the CSDDD !

Will you stand for people & planet, or for reckless deregulation?

#YesToCSDDD #SocialJusticeDay