HK Group Tracking China Labor Unrest Shuts Down

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The Hong Kong-based NGO announced on Thursday 12 June that it had ceased its activities because of financial difficulties, after defending workers' rights for more than 30 years. Founded by Han Dongfang, a former Chinese railwayman and leader of the Tiananmen movement, the NGO was following factory closures and labour demonstrations in China.

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In Hong Kong, the NGO also had to stop its activities, which revived the news about spontaneous protests of workers and accidents at work in mainland China. It was born in 1994 by activist Han Dongfang, who in Tiananmen Square in 1989 had tried to create an independent union. A few hours after the announcement already disabled the website. There are now 60 groups of civil society that have dissolved since 2020.

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The China Labor Communications, founded by the June 4th labor movement leader Han Dongfang and headquartered in Hong Kong, announced its dissolution on the evening of June 12, suspected of being due to pressure from the Chinese and Hong Kong national security authorities.