China using 'collective punishment' against activists' families: rights group

Beijing (AFP) April 15, 2024

The children of human rights advocates in China are being punished for their parents' activism as Beijing intensifies a crackdown on civil society, a rights group warned on Monday. China has long stood accused of suppressing human rights, especially in the troubled regions of Xinjiang and Tibet as well as more recently in the former British colony of Hong Kong. Beijing consistently denie