Maya Wang 王松莲

@wang_maya

Senior China researcher for Human Rights Watch 国际组织人权观察中国部 资深研究员 with a focus on mass surveillance+Hong Kong+Xinjiang at the moment.

Hong Kong
hrw.org
Joined September 2009
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    1 May 2019

    Chinese govt’s been denying that there are severe abuses in Xinjiang. Well, we’ve reverse engineered an official policing app that shows otherwise. Take a look at new report:

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  2. 3 hours ago

    Impressive piece which establishes Xi's role in China's bungled response to the virus. Xi's governance failure keeps adding up (e.g. NYT leak establishes his role in Xinjiang crackdown) & yet those calling him out are punished + detained (Xu Zhiyong, Xu Zhangrun).

    How began. A reconstruction reveals a series of early missteps compounded by political foot-dragging. Three doctors infected and died after their hospital told staff not to spread rumor. With ..
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  3. Retweeted
    13 hours ago

    中国： 儿童被剥夺母语课程

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  4. Retweeted
    15 hours ago

    activist indisputably presents a challenge to the . But he no threat to state security—quite the opposite. He and many other peaceful activists are the solution.

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  5. Retweeted
    10 hours ago

    On this , the CECC recognizes women courageously seeking a better for all, including journalist & rights activist who were detained for fighting sexual violence & discrimination.

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  6. 5 hours ago

    Xu Zhiyong, one of China's most prominent activists & who called Xi clueless on coronavirus, faces years in jail for 'subversion'

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  7. 6 hours ago

    Women fill the streets of the world’s largest cities to protest gender violence and inequality

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  8. Retweeted
    6 hours ago

    Women were on the frontline of a wave of popular protests that rocked the world over the past 12 months. From Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Chile through to Sudan, Iraq and Hong Kong, journalists were there to document.

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  9. 6 hours ago

    Mass arrests in following a couple peaceful protests; as coronavirus fears calm in , police appears to be heightening action against protesters.

    Even for police, these are extraordinarily high arrest counts for peaceful protests involving relatively few protesters- about 100 in Tai Po & 1,000 in Tseung Kwan O. Police are using arbitrary mass arrests to persecute protesters & scare them from the streets.
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  10. 20 hours ago

    Governments should mark International Women’s Day on March 8, 2020 with moves to expedite progress on gender equality -- more from here:

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  11. 21 hours ago

    Inspiring activism on over the past 25 years has led to massive gains, but entrenched discrimination, gender-based violence, and neglect keep many women and girls from enjoying their full rights

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  12. Retweeted
    Mar 7

    Police taking arrest actions across Hong Kong at 4am, suspected to be related to PolyU siege, according to district councillor Hermine Chan

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  13. Retweeted
    Mar 7

    reminding us that the repression & surveillance of is more than the story of draconian concentration camps. Can we imagine being critical of govt in at a conference the way we can be critical of govt in democracies?

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  14. Retweeted
    Mar 6

    Tomorrow’s conference “Surveillance and Repression of Muslim Minorities: Xinjiang and Beyond” will be live-streaming at this link from 9.15 GMT

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  15. Retweeted
    Mar 6

    Ex-localist leader Edward Leung transferred to maximum-security prison – report

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  16. Retweeted
    Mar 5

    African news sites are starting to cover the horrifically racist online reaction in China to the proposed new draft law for Chinese permanent residency which included thousands of anti-black/African comments.

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  17. Retweeted
    Mar 5

    Women around the world perform $10,900,000,000,000 worth of unpaid labor each year. Horrified / mesmerized by this visualization (by my brilliant former professor Kristen Ghodsee)

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  18. Mar 5

    Where else is there a focused on encouraging tech innovation for genuine social improvement, with a selection panel made up of >50% women? It's Taiwan.

    0:59
    Good things come to those who wait. But even better things come to those who embrace a civic hacking lifestyle. Cast a close eye over the clip & reply with feedback. 🧑🏼‍💻 Colleague did the 🇯🇵 voiceover. ツイッターの皆さんから見てどうですか？
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  19. Mar 5

    Hong Kong’s police watchdog lacks power, impartiality and falls shorts of int’l standards, says Amnesty

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  20. Mar 4

    Woot! Finally a story on who faces down threats and intimidation from Chinese govt and trolls with such panache.

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    The journalist and comedian paying a high price for dissent — on Monday
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  21. Mar 4

    Assimilationist policy for minorities has gained momentum under President Xi Jinping’s leadership. New report says "bilingual" education in Tibet is, in fact, a guise to marginalize the Tibetan language from age 3:

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