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Public Security Infographic: Make Sure Foreign NGOs Have Filed!
Ministry of Public Security WeChat Posts—January 9-10, 2019
The MPS forwarded a cartoon and infographic about the Foreign NGO Law, which offers a general overview of the law, such as information on what defines a foreign NGO, what sectors foreign NGOs are able to work in, who registration and supervising authorities are, what paperwork is required to register or file, and what foreign NGOs are not permitted to do. As many of the details of registration and filing have been covered on this...Read more
Foreign NGO Publicity and ‘110 Day’ in Jiangsu and Anhui, Meetings with NGOs in Yunnan and Ningxia
Ministry of Public Security WeChat Posts—January 23-25, 2019
Recently, the Jiangsu Public Security Bureau (PSB) Foreign NGO Management Department combined the two-year anniversary of the Foreign NGO Law with “110 Publicity Day” to actively promote the Law. [110 is China’s emergency police number.] The department posted a “authoritative explanation” of the Foreign NGO Law on a provincial PSB WeChat account, posted a related cartoon at the top of their home webpage, and coordinated with city- and county-level PSBs to post related content to...Read more
Bertram Lang and Heike Holbig recently published an overview of the Foreign NGO Law’s effect on Europe-based non-profits, titled “Civil Society Work in China: Trade-Offs and Opportunities for European NGOs.” Though the article is primarily focused on Europe, much of its analysis is pertinent to international groups hailing from elsewhere in the world.Read more
Hitting the Street in Lhasa, Educational Outreach in Tianjin
Ministry of Public Security WeChat Posts—December 29, 2018
The Tibet PSB promotes the Foreign NGO Law on the streets of Lhasa, while Jiangxi and Tianjin PSBs visit universities and other government agencies to talk about schools' cooperation with foreign NGOs.Read more
As reported by HK01, a Hong Kong-based news outlet focused on civil society and advocacy work, local public security authorities picked up Hong Kong resident Cheung Kam Hung on January 11 in Shenzhen, Guangdong province for violations of the Foreign NGO Law and administratively detained him for three days. As head of the Hong Kong-registered Rainbow China (彩虹中國), a non-profit focused on LGBT rights and HIV/AIDS prevention and support in China, Cheung had planned to...Read more