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Since Beijing first began bidding to host the Olympics, I have argued that the international community should reject Beijing's hosting of the Games because of the lack of change in the Chinese Communist dictatorship since the Tiananmen...
In the evening of 4 June 2021, hundreds of activists gathered in front of the Chinese Embassy in London to mark the 32nd anniversary of the 1989 pro-democracy movement and the Tiananmen massacre. At the rally, we read out the statement...
This year marks the 32nd anniversary of the 1989 pro-democracy movement and the June Fourth massacre. We honour the memory of all those who rallied for democracy in 1989, many of whom were murdered or jailed. As always, we stand firmly...
This year marks the 32nd anniversary of the 1989 pro-democracy movement and the Tiananmen massacre. As always, we stand firmly with Tiananmen mothers, supporting their demands for truth, accountability, and justice for victims. We will...
On 19 January and 9 February, ministers and Tory majority parliamentarians repeatedly blocked the prevention of genocide clause to the Trade Bill. What is the origin of the clause? Why is it significant? Why did the UK government and...
After seven years of negotiations, the EU and China signed the China-EU Comprehensive Agreement on Investment（CAI）at the end of 2020. The EU declared that “CAI will help rebalance the trade and investment relations between the EU and...
London marks 31st anniversary of #TiananmenMassacre #June4倫敦悼念 #天安門大屠殺 #六四31周年 #6431truth #八九六四 #StandWithHongKong
Due to London's Covid-19 lockdown rules that restrict meetings in public spaces to groups of six, commemoration of the June 4 Massacre will be carried out in a spontaneous way this year. Individuals and small groups who want to go to...
Today we are here to mark the seventy-first anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We are here to oppose the barbaric rule of the Chinese regime and to stand in solidarity with peoples of East Turkestan, Tibet, Hong...
London stands with Hongkongers, Uyghurs, Tibetans and HRDs in mainland China. #UDHR71 #StandUp4HumanRights 倫敦聲援香港人、維吾爾人、藏人和中國大陸的人權捍衛者。#世界人權宣言71週年 #捍衛人權 https://twitter.com/shaojiang/status/1204564015931895808 Onsite language lessons at...
London activists will gather at Chinese Embassy to mark Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 71, in solidarity with Hong Kongers, Uyghurs Tibetans and all the oppressed under the CCP rule. 倫敦活動人士將在中國大使館外紀念《世界人權宣言》71週年, 聲援香港人、維吾爾人...
Plasma supplier in the UK now controlled by the Chinese company would be endangering the life and health whoever uses the NHS service. The history in the blood scandal in the UK has shown the relationship problem between the public and...
Statement on the IOPC’s Final Report 30 June 2019 On 26 June the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) published its findings and decision in response to the complaints that my wife and I filed following my unlawful arrests...
Students staged sit-in in front of the Great Hall of People and demanded to see members of the Standing Committee and show them the List of Seven Demands. But the authorities refused officially to reply to the demand. Some protesters...
At 1pm, April 17, 1989, six or seven hundred students and teachers in University of Political Science and Law headed out of the campus toward Tiananmen Square. It was the first demonstration of 1989. At 11pm, three thousand students in...
On 16 June, London in solidarity with #HongKong 倫敦撐香港 “Release the students! Carrie Lam resign! Withdraw! No withdrawal no settlement！釋放學生！林鄭下台！撤回惡法！不撤不散！” #NoChinaExtradition #反送中 https://twitter.com/shaojiang/status...
Dear MP, I am writing to bring your attention about both the content and the short consultation period allowed for the proposed changes to the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance (often referred to as Extradition Law) and the Mutual Legal...
On Tuesday the 4rd of June, 8pm-10pm, aorund 250 people including many young people gathered in front of the Chinese Embassy in London to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the 1989 Beijing June 4 Massacre, showing solidarity with...
1. Screening of 'The Man who Defied Beijing' 30 May 2019, 6 - 8 pm Free Word, London Organised by Reporters without Borders https://freeword.org/event/advance-screening-of-the-man-who-defied-beij… 2. Tiananmen Panel 31 May 2019, 8...
To mark the 30th anniversary of the 1989 pro-democracy movement and the bloody massacre on 4 June, we will be holding a candlelit vigil at the Chinese Embassy in London on Tuesday 4 June, 8–10 pm. We reiterate our demands on the...
About me
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).