Bloggers

From local Amnesty members to government ministers, and human rights defenders to fundraising stars. Our guest bloggers cover all angles of our work and what it means to defend human rights.

Shao Jiang, a former prisoner of conscience for his active role in the 1989 pro-democracy movement, is a committed activist-scholar, who lives and works in exile in London. The academic interests focus on politics and media, social movement, democratisation, feminism, law in PRC and Hong Kong, autonomy & sovereignty & self-determination, international Human Rights mechanisms, comparative studies on development models and political institutions, theory and practice of Civil Society. Publications include Citizen Publications in China before the Internet (Palgrave, 2015).

Likes: la vita italiana; reggae; Claire Denis; suits; jazz; espresso; Iain Sinclair; London; punk; not eating meat ...

Also on Twitter as @Niluccio or if you're a journalist you can call the Amnesty UK media team on +44 (0)20 7033 1547.