It is now six months since award-winning #journalist Minnie Chan last filed a story for South China Morning Post. Based here in #HongKong , last seen in Beijing. Her current and former colleagues and the broader community of journalists here care only for her welfare and hope she is OK.

⚡️Ukrainian boy defeats Russian chess star to win World Championship.

Oleksii Nakonechnyi, a 10-year-old chess player from Truskavets, won the U10 World Cadet Rapid Chess Championship in Albania, defeating Russian champion Roman Shogdzhiev.
kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-boy-…

#BREAKING 🇫🇷 Senator Olivier Cadic names five French politicians targeted by China in 2021 as Isabelle Florennes, Bernard Jomier, André Vallini, Olivier Cadic himself, and André Gattolin.

Cadic describes #APT31 as an act of 'cyber war' and asks the Minister why he was not

The first Chinese scientist to publish a genomic sequence of the Covid-19 virus, in defiance of government orders, has been staging a sit-in protest after claiming he was locked out of his laboratory. theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Here is the Filip Jirouš piece for Jamestown Foundation highlighted by Financial Times jamestown.org/program/prc-ex…

Contrary to the China Academy of Social Sciences' claims, it does work w/ the MSS and provides cover for an MSS bureau (covered previously at Jamestown China Brief): jamestown.org/program/chinas…

Fascinating issues highlighted in International Republican Institute's new report on how #China & #Russia are undermining democracy worldwide:

iri.org/resources/the-…

'My mother…was not an activist. She was not a politician. She was just a housewife, but a brave woman.'

'She died in the concentration camp, 78 years old at the time.'

Dolkun Isa, President of World Uyghur Congress, learned of his mother's death from Radio Free Asia, one year after

After a techy problem, #HideAndSeek - our comprehensive manual on how to, step by step, stop China's abuse of extraditions, is now up online again. A priceless resource for lawyers and victims, based on countless successes in courts around the world.

safeguarddefenders.com/en/blog/hide-a…

Whistleblowing Uyghur surgeon speaks on horror of organ harvesting in China. rfa.org/english/news/u…

The trial of 76-year-old Uncle Chen's been postponed a 2nd time to June 21. He's accused of 'displaying banners in a park w/out a permit' for holding a Lu Xun couplet at Lion Rock in Sep 2023. One of the political trials that shows the absurd reach of #repression in #HongKong .

Very much looking forward to this conversation. Many aspects to dig into.

So many “sensitive anniversaries” happening this year, nice to see this one - 25 years since the CCP started persecuting Falun Gong - not being forgotten.

It’s law.

Wow, looks like the TikTok bill passed the Senate

Join us in 2 days for our webinar, featuring Sarah Cook, a renowned China expert and author of multiple Freedom House reports.

Cook will delve into the landscape of religious dissent in China and examine the aftermath of the April 25th appeals.

RSVP: app.livestorm.co/falun-dafa-inf…

Today is Gao Zhisheng's 60th birthday.

The Falun Dafa Information Center joins others to call for his immediate release and updates regarding his whereabouts and condition.

Gao's 2005 open letters: faluninfo.net/prominent-chin…

A chronology of Gao Zhisheng's legacy by Human Rights Watch: hrw.org/news/2014/07/3…

One of many brilliant anecdotes from Dali L. Yang’s new book “Wuhan.”

In furtherance of Xi Jinping’s 2019 Aspiration/Mission Campaign, doctors were encouraged not to wear masks to “shorten the distance” btwn staff & patients. Important socio-political background to COVID outbreak

It's really a great experience to be involved in this Freedom House research on #China 's media influence in #Kuwait . Very humbling for me too. I have learned a lot in the course of reading through the analyses by the experts on Kuwait and doing a bit of desk research about…

In a recent piece, The Economist notes #LatinAmerica 's exposure to #Chinese coercive leverage: 'Unlike Europe and the United States many Latin American countries lack an institution to assess foreign investments on strategic or national security grounds.'🧵economist.com/the-americas/2…