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    3 months ago

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    China continues to unlawfully target the families of activists and dissidents, despite a pledge to end the practice of collective punishment, a Chinese human rights group has said in a report.

    The persecution, which includes intimidation and harassment, forced evictions, travel bans, criminal proceedings against family members and preventing children from attending school, has affected people across China and the diaspora community for decades, the report by the Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) group said.

    “Following a review, we deemed the notices not consistent with the constitution, nor with laws on education, employment and social insurance, so we urge relevant departments to abolish the documents,” the NPC responded, according to China Daily Hong Kong.

    The report, released on Monday, focused on acts of alleged collective punishment committed in 2023 and early 2024, with “dozens” of new or ongoing cases that they said showed the practice was continuing.

    Among the cases the CHRD noted was that of the jailed activist He Fangmei, whose young children, her lawyers say, disappeared in April after being forcibly held in a psychiatric facility.

    The CHRD report also included testimony that in March police had searched the new school of the son of the human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang who was released from jail in 2020.


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