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Michael Caster is a human rights advocate, researcher and civil society consultant. He is the co-founder and former associate director of the Chinese Urgent Action Working Group, a Beijing-based legal aid NGO that operated from 2009 until 2016 when it was forcibly shut down by the Chinese Government. He holds masters degrees in international law and human rights from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the University of Utrecht.

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Turkey should stand up for Uyghurs and refuse to ratify China extradition treaty

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A missing Chinese property tycoon exposes how Xi Jinping governs through enforced disappearance

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Detained Chinese lawyer Wang Quanzhang must be granted freedom, not ‘non-release release’

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Too little, too late: It’s time to freeze the sale of crowd control equipment to Hong Kong police

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Int’l Day of the Disappeared: China must put a halt to secret detention and all forms of enforced disappearances

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On World Press Freedom Day, China must account for disappeared photojournalist Lu Guang

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At Davos, the message of ‘Globalization 4.0’ must include a rebuke of China’s ethnic cleansing in Xinjiang

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Something to hide? This Christmas, it was not a rights lawyer on trial, but the Chinese legal system itself

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Empowered by Liu Xia’s release, it is time to redouble the call for others’ freedom in China

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‘If I lose my freedom’: How China’s human rights defenders are resisting forced confessions

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