Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch mourns the death of Robin Munro, who joined Human Rights Watch in 1989 as China researcher and Hong Kong office director. His eyewitness reporting on the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters at Tiananmen Square in Beijing helped the world understand and respond to the Chinese government’s violent repression.
Munro passed away in Taiwan on May 19, 2021.
While working at Human Rights Watch from 1989-1998, Munro did pathbreaking research on China’s psychiatric abuse of political prisoners, abuses in orphanages, and organ harvesting of convicts. He also broke new ground reporting on Inner Mongolia, the laogai (“reform through labor”) detention system in Xinjiang, and repression of Catholics in Hebei province. While researching the first major report on China’s Three Gorges Dam, Munro unearthed a government coverup of the collapse of a different dam several years earlier through malfeasance and shoddy construction.
AFP
Food delivery riders are taking industrial action in China over low pay and the recent detention of an unofficial labor leader, RFA has learned. Meituan food delivery workers protest against lower rates by going on strike in Shenzhen, the Hong Kong-based China Labour Bulletin (CLB) said on its Strike Map on Monday.
Hundreds of workers are demanding a pay increase and better conditions, it said.
The strike comes after Xiong Yan, who headed an unofficial union formed by workers for the food delivery app Ele.me and other services, was detained in Beijing last month. His whereabouts are still unknown.