The human rights environment in China has deteriorated pretty significantly in the last decade.

Maya Wang

We have to take into account that the torture of political criminal suspects often is worse and the report doesn't cover Tibet and Xinjiang.

Before, she was detained, she was always taking the medication for anti-viral treatment, from what I've seen, her physical condition is poor and her face looks jaundiced.

Although Guo has been at the forefront of China's rights movement, he has also tried to keep a low profile, to remain in that narrowing space without being jailed, the fact that he's detained signals further tightening of the authorities' grip on China's civil society.

The point is to prevent any contact between the activists and, essentially, the outside world, which, during these events, tends to pay more attention to what's happening in China.

These countries pride themselves for being leaders of the Islamic world, but they don't bat an eyelid when returning people for persecution for being Muslim, it is quite outrageous and I think it's hypocritical, but that illustrates the geopolitical reality.

A lot of these governments don't care about human rights, they are unelected governments that persecute their citizens in their countries. There is no real rule of law and democracy when it comes to deportations of Uyghurs.

If you look at China's surveillance measures during the coronavirus outbreak, from the development of health codes to installation of surveillance cameras to enforce quarantine, we're seeing an increasingly intrusive use of surveillance technologies that were previously only seen in particularly repressed regions, like Xinjiang, the surveillance measures being implemented during Covid-19, are unfortunately — if not pushed back — going to live with us for a very long time.