Category: English — Responses

FACTS ChinaAid reports that Pastor Sun Chenghao’s wife said in an August 25 open letter that his health has deteriorated in prison and that the family was recently told he suddenly lost consciousness. ChinaAid says no further public…

What the Justice Department Reported The U.S. Department of Justice says Thomas Weir Pauken II was sentenced September 1 to two years in federal prison and 36 months of supervised release with no overseas travel after pleading guilty…

FACTS On August 31, 2026, Miles Yu argued in The Washington Times that closed-door or “quiet” diplomacy with Beijing can become dangerous when policymakers substitute private assurances for verifiable conduct. Free China Movement has published a six-language Editorial…

FCM calls for written, reviewable and narrowly tailored funeral-facility rules while preserving the qualification that a citywide Shanghai ban has not been verified.

FCM calls for transparent legal process and meaningful access to counsel in the reported Yueyang Panshi Church detention cases.

FCM welcomes Xiang Jinfeng’s reported release and says completion of a sentence must not be replaced by surveillance, renewed detention or arbitrary travel restrictions.

FCM says enforced-disappearance advocacy should preserve names and cases while maintaining careful attribution and case-level verification.

Free China Movement says the significance of the August 29 New York actions is not crowd size but the preservation and retransmission of democratic voices that authorities seek to constrain.