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David on Formosa

Dozens of people in Tibetan areas have been arrested since 2021 for politically motivated phone and internet-related offenses. The arrests often target Tibetans for having "banned content" on their phones or contacting people outside China, according to a report by Human Rights Watch

hrw.org/news/2025/04/13/china-

A Tibetan Buddhist monk and a woman share a mobile phone outside the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, on June 1, 2021.
Human Rights Watch · China: Police Arrest Tibetans for Internet, Phone UseChina’s government has arrested dozens of people in Tibetan areas since 2021 for politically motived phone and internet-related offenses.
#Tibet#China#HumanRights
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"A coalition of governments has published a list of legitimate-looking Android apps that were actually spyware and were used to target civil society that may oppose China’s state interests.

On Tuesday, the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre, or NCSC, which is part of intelligence agency GCHQ, along with government agencies from Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, and the United States, published separate advisories on two families of spyware, known as BadBazaar and Moonshine.

These two spywares hid inside legitimate-looking Android apps, acting essentially as “Trojan” malware, with surveillance capabilities such as the ability to access the phone’s cameras, microphone, chats, photos, and location data, the NCSC wrote in a press release on Wednesday.

BadBazaar and Moonshine, which have been previously analyzed by cybersecurity firms like Lookout, Trend Micro, and Volexity, as well as the digital rights nonprofit Citizen Lab, were used to target Uyghurs, Tibetans, and Taiwanese communities, as well as civil society groups, according to the NCSC.

Uyghurs are a Muslim-minority group largely in China that has for years faced detention, surveillance, and discrimination from the Chinese government, and thus has frequently been the target of hacking campaigns."

techcrunch.com/2025/04/09/gove

TechCrunch · Governments identify dozens of Android apps bundled with spyware | TechCrunchThe advisories say the spyware apps are used to target members of civil society who may oppose China’s state interests.
#CyberSecurity#China#Android
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David on Formosa

📻 NGOs supporting human rights in China have signed an open letter in support of Radio Free Asia

"RFA serves as a critical source of information on the situation in the PRC and is an effective counter to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) aggression and malign influence in the Indo-Pacific region."

nchrd.org/2025/04/joint-statem

www.nchrd.orgJoint Statement in Support of Radio Free Asia | Chinese Human Rights Defenders
#China#HumanRights#VoiceofAmerica
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Simone

Ich finde es so unglaublich schade, dass #China nicht besser dazu taugt, eine Rolle als Weltleader einzunehmen.

Eine Jahrtausendealte Kultur, die vor Mao auch durchaus Nachhaltigkeit wichtig nahm, hätte doch theoretisch eine gute Führung in der jetzigen Situation werden können.

Aber praktisch liegen die Chinesen mit Russland im Bett, haben Konzentrationslager für Uiguren und versuchen, die Tibetische Kultur auszulöschen

Schade echt.

#neueWege#gemeinsam#Menschenrechte
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David on Formosa

HRW has called on the government of Vietnam to investigate the death in suspicious circumstances of Tibetan lama, Humkar Dorje Rinpoche, who died while in custody in Ho Chi Minh City on 29 March 2025

Humkar Dorje was head of the Lung Ngon monastery in Gabde county in the Golok Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Qinghai province. He had been missing since November 2024

hrw.org/news/2025/04/09/china/

A photo of Humkar Dorje Rinpoche
Human Rights Watch · China/Vietnam: Suspicious Death of Tibetan High LamaThe Vietnamese government should investigate the death under suspicious circumstances of a senior Tibetan lama, Humkar Dorje Rinpoche, in Ho Chi Minh City on March 29, 2025.
#Tibet#Vietnam#China
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demi7en 🎗🇪🇺

World's democracies condemned the crackdown in Hong Kong, but did nothing to impose costs on the CCP dictatorship. Instead business (read: Chinese exports) only grew and grew. Gotta empower them despots! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hong Kong's pro-democracy struggle presented an opportunity for democracies to stand up against dictatorship, but we failed miserably.

Giving the #CCP yet another free pass (after its repressive occupation of Tibet in 1950-1951 and the 1989 Tiananmen massacre) surely emboldened #putin to invade #Ukraine in 2022.

Repression of Tibetans, Uighurs, South-Mongolians, Hongkongers... or a billion+ voiceless Chinese brought no consequences, but at least the invasion of *European* Ukraine gave us Europeans a limited wakeup.

It's not enough. We could have aided developing democracies when the Soviet empire fell in 1989-1991 and *not aided* repressive regimes. Instead we doubled down on doing business without limits and empowered the likes of Chinese dictatorship.

There are things I love about Europe, and things I am deeply ashamed of. Talking about human rights while empowering despots belongs in the latter category.

Some foreign individuals did "Stand with Hong Kong" though. At least one here in Mastodon is, as always, still busy fighting authoritarian takeover. Now in her homeland of the USA.

“Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.“
— Nelson Mandela

#Hongkong#Tibet#Uighurs
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