Maya Wang 王松蓮
@wang_maya
associate China director @hrw; also distinguished fellow @asu_ldns, board @hkdc_us. Email: wangm(at)hrw(dot)org. Find me on Bluesky at mayawang.
There's "a fragile but emerging global coalition that joins far-right elements in the United States, Russia, and China". New piece by @masonwrong and me on rising far-right in China + cross-fertilization between them & those elements in Russia, US foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/29/chi…
Hong Kong circa 1981--noodles from a cart 😋. It's since disappeared. In fact, the push of govt to eliminate street food hawkers partly sparked Hong Kong's protest movement. Hong Kong people want democracy--including whether they can have noodles from a cart.
1981年澳洲電視台節目講香港路邊真。車仔麵
Chinese tech firm Tencent seeks removal of anti-censorship archive FreeWeChat, watchdog says hongkongfp.com/2025/07/17/chi… “This escalation comes amid a tightening censorship regime inside China and dwindling international support for digital rights work due to foreign aid cuts.”
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#以色列 连月来蓄意让逾200万 #加沙 巴勒斯坦人挨饿，截至今天已有71名儿童与病患因营养不良死亡。现在，有近9万名加沙儿童营养不良。
近日，一位网友连续好几天在镜头前大喊：我想让所有的同胞有双休，有五险一金，每天上班八小时，节假日放假，工资按时发放，无压力买房买车。
Breaking: Hong Kong national security authorities issues a fresh round of baseless bounties against 15 people for organizing and participating in an exile Hong Kong Parliament. hk.news.yahoo.com/%E5%9C%8B%E5%A…
香港國安處懸紅通緝袁弓夷、姜嘉偉等 19 人 被指籌組及參與「香港議會」選舉 hk.news.yahoo.com/%E5%9C%8B%E5%A…
Tibetan Singer Disappears After Singing ‘Prince of Peace’ Honoring His Holiness the great 14th Dalai Lama #justice #tibetan #singer sonsnow.com/2025/07/19/tib…
This is utter madness We have thousands of #HongKongers in the UK who face charges under #HongKong’s laws and whom the #CCP would love to extradite Moreover I personally have been threatened with jail in #HK. @DanJarvisMBE @CatherineWest1 @YvetteCooperMP @DavidLammy…
Government plans to reintroduce extradition cooperation with Hong Kong are highly concerning. Why does the Government deem this reasonable when freedom of expression, political freedom and the rule of law in Hong Kong have been crushed by The National Security Law and the…
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Government plans to reintroduce extradition cooperation with Hong Kong are highly concerning. Why does the Government deem this reasonable when freedom of expression, political freedom and the rule of law in Hong Kong have been crushed by The National Security Law and the…
Wow. A Shanxi underground church leader in Linfen has been given a 15-year sentence. Incredible harsh sentence as Xi continues his heavy crackdown on religions to reshape them to serve the Party's goals.
2025年6月20日，法官来看守所，对山西省临汾金灯台家庭教会传道人杨荣丽宣告判决判刑15年。 杨荣丽：女，1958年10月3日出生，山西省霍州市人，基督徒，前山西师范大学老干部处公职人员，原山西省临汾金灯台家庭教会负责人、传道人，中国在押良心犯。
一股针对伊斯兰教、女权、黑人和LGBTQ社群的极右派社会情绪正在 #中国 兴起。这种情绪与中国 #民族主义 有关。中国民族主义长久以来带有种族主义和至上主义倾向，通常表现为现代中国人是由至高无上的“黄种人”所构成的观点。 这种观念最近开始跟西方极右派论述融合与交流⋯⋯ hrw.org/zh-hans/news/2……
Chilling: Chinese govt press lambasted Hong Kong's independent bookstores for organizing a book fair, calling it "soft resistance", re-defining previously non-political behavior as politically subversive, deepening censorship + repression hongkongfp.com/2025/07/21/co-…
补充：此前在各大社交平台发声的家长，近期已几乎全部噤声，原因无非是账号被平台封禁，或因来自中共当局的施压。同时，中共的各类官方喉舌媒体却持续高调报道相关事件，彻底夺走了“幼儿园铅中毒”事件的话语权，使得真正的受害者群体失去了发声空间。
【甘肃天水幼儿园铅中毒事件后续：家长堵路抗议，警察殴打抓捕维权者】 7月20日晚，甘肃天水麦积区褐石培心幼儿园家长发起维权行动，堵塞成纪大道东路，抗议警察殴打、抓捕维权家长。当天稍早，因抗议政府篡改检测数据、强迫家长签协议，两名家长被警察殴打并带走，引发家长集体不满。…
"U.S. citizen who works for Commerce Dept. ensnared in Chinese exit ban" washingtonpost.com/national-secur… and the exit ban against Wells Fargo exec raise fresh alarms about safety of foreigners (esp those w Chinese descent) in China scmp.com/news/china/dip…
Public health crisis -> cover-up -> public outrage -> jailing a few scapegoats -> rinse and repeat from Covid-19 to lead poisoning of kids. People in China deserve real accountability--i.e. democracy, a free press. nytimes.com/2025/07/21/wor…
Canada wishes His holiness the Dalai Lama a happy 90th birthday. As an internationally respected spiritual leader and an honorary Canadian citizen, the Dalai Lama is a recognized human rights and religious freedom advocate.