On 9 April 2026, The Rights Practice, and 25 other organisations, signed a joint statement to urge Chinese authorities to ensure that human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng is immediately released after serving his sentence. Read more
On 24 February 2026, The Rights Practice, along with 25 other civil society organisations, called on UN Human Rights Chief to address the HRC to detail his office’s efforts to investigate alleged Chinese government crimes against humanity. Read more
On 15 December 2025, The Rights Practice signed a joint letter, along with 32 other organisations, to Rt Hon Keir Starmer MP, Prime Minister of the UK, urging him to secure British citizen Jimmy Lai's release. Read more
On 30 October 2025, The Rights Practice and six other organisations issued a joint statement expressing grave concerns about reports that lawyer Zhang Wenpeng has been tortured while in arbitrary detention in China. Read more
On 15 October 2025, The Rights Practice, and 89 other NGOs, issued a joint statement to strongly condemn the Chinese government's ongoing arbitrary detention of Swedish publisher and writer Gui Minhai on the 10th anniversary of his kidnapping. Read more
On 30 September 2025, The Rights Practice signed a joint letter, along with 52 other rights groups, to urgently raise serious concerns regarding systemic abuses occurring in Hong Kong's prisons. Read more
On 3 September 2025, The Rights Practice and seven other organisations issued a joint statement to express their grave concern over the disciplinary proceedings and disbarment of Hong Kong solicitor Kevin Yam. Read more
In July 2025, The Rights Practice published an important new report: "When the State Makes you Work. The use of state-imposed forced labour in China". Read more
On 17 July 2025, The Rights Practice signed a joint letter, along with 16 other organisations, to urge the EU to prioritise human rights in the forthcoming European Union (EU)-China Summit to be held in China on July 24-25. Read more
On 7 July 2025, The Rights Practice, and 30 other organisations, urge the United Nations to establish an independent, international investigation into Beijing’s persecution of civil society, ten years after the “709” crackdown. Read more
On 25 June 2025, The Rights Practice endorsed an Oral Statement to the 59th Session of the UN Human Rights Council reflecting on ten years since the “709 crackdown” against human rights lawyers in China. Read more
On 14 May 2025, The Rights Practice, and 62 other organisations, issued a joint statement to strongly condemn the Chinese government's ongoing arbitrary detention of journalist Zhang Zhan. Read more
On 6 May 2025, The Rights Practice, along with 7 other organisations, issued a joint statement to express concern over the sentencing of human rights lawyer Lu Siwei. Read more
On 27 February 2025, The Rights Practice, along with 6 other organisations published a joint statement expressing grave concerns about the detention and deteriorating health of human rights lawyer Lu Siwei. Read more
On 10 February 2025, The Rights Practice, along with 33 other international organisations, issued a joint statement on the fifth anniversary of the 'Xiamen Gathering' crackdown. Read more
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In November 2024, The Rights Practice along with seven other organisations, signed a joint statement raising concerns about human rights lawyer and legal scholar, Dr Xu Zhiyong who is currently on hunger strike in prison in China. Read more
In November 2024, The Rights Practice signed a joint statement, along with 23 other organisations calling for the urgent release of lawyer Yu Wensheng and his wife Xu Yan. Read more
The Rights Practice, along with 6 other organisations, sent a joint intervention letter concerning the detention of Chinese human rights lawyer Lu Siwei. Read more
Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) and The Rights Practice (TRP) sent a detailed communiqué to UN Special Procedures regarding the arbitrary detention of human rights defenders Ji Xiaolong and Chen Pinlin. Read more
On 28 August 2024, The Rights Practice, along with 14 other NGOs, signed a joint statement to mark the second anniversary of the OHCHR’s publication of its Assessment of Human Rights Concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Read more
In March 2024, The Rights Practice issued a response to the Hong Kong government regarding our submission on planned Article 23 legislation. Read more
In February 2024, The Rights Practice made a submission to the government of Hong Kong in response to their public consultation on proposed Article 23 national security legislation. Read more
To mark International Human Rights Day, 10 December 2023, The Rights Practice, along with seven organisations, released a statement to express concern about ongoing, widespread violations of lawyers by authorities in China and Hong Kong. Read more