LIVE 10 AM ET: Congressional Executive Commission Hold Review of China’s Human Rights Situation

Published on February 1, 2024

The U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) holds a hearing on “THE PRC’S UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW AND THE REAL STATE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA” at 10:00 a.m. ET on Feb. 1. Witnesses: Rana Siu Inboden: senior fellow with the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas-Austin Benedict Rogers: co-founder and chief executive of Hong Kong Watch Emile Dirks: Research associate at the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto Sophie Luo: Wife of detained Chinese human rights lawyer Ding Jiaxi Rushan Abbas: founder and executive director, Campaign for Uyghurs...

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