- Will the Chinese Government adhere to internationally recognized standards to protect freedom of religion or belief by refraining from interfering with the Tibetan people’s right to choose its own clergy, including on the next Dalai Lama?
- What is the Chinese Government’s reaction to the concerns expressed by United Nations Special Rapporteurs in November 2022 regarding what they termed “a policy of acculturation and assimilation of the Tibetan culture into the dominant Han Chinese majority”?
- What is the timeline for the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to implement the recommendations made by the UN Human Rights Committee including with regard to repealing the Hong Kong National Security Law?
- How is the “mosque consolidation” policy from 2018 in line with the international right to freedom of religion, in particular the reportedly significant reduction in the number of mosques in the provinces of Ningxia, Gansu and Xinjiang?
- What are the exact statistics, disaggregated by sex, age, nationality and ethnicity, and other applicable criteria, regarding China’s use of the death penalty (including inter alia, the number of persons sentenced to death, the number of persons on death row, the number of executions carried out, the number of death sentences reversed or commuted on appeal and the number of scheduled executions) in the reporting period? Does China consider lifting the secrecy on the statistics of the annual executions and thus make it compliant with international human rights standards?
- How does the practice of “residential surveillance at a designated location”, specifically with regard to human rights defenders and lawyers, comply with the right to be free from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and with due process standards?
- How are the continued deprivations of liberty of human rights defenders, such as Ding Jiaxi, Xu Zhiyong, Ilham Tothi, Rahile Dawut, Li Yuhan and Yu Wensheng in line with international human rights law, in particular with the right to freedom of opinion and expression and the right to freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention? And what are the whereabouts of Gao Zhisheng?
消息来源:https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/upr/sessions/session45/cn/upr-session45-Advance-Questions-China.docx