Sophie Richardson
Sophie Richardson serves as the China Director at Human Rights Watch. She has overseen the organization’s research and advocacy on China since 2006, and has published extensively on human rights and political reform in the country and across Southeast Asia. She has testified to the Canadian Parliament, European Parliament, and the United States Senate and House of Representatives. Dr. Richardson is the author of China, Cambodia, and the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence (Columbia University Press, Dec. 2009), an in-depth examination of China's foreign policy since 1954's Geneva Conference, including rare interviews with Chinese policy makers. She speaks Mandarin, and received her doctorate from the University of Virginia and her BA from Oberlin College.
Videos
Multimedia
Obama in China - Rights Watch #20, November 17, 2009
Tiananmen: China's Unhealed Wound, May 12, 2009
Articles Authored
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September 29, 2023
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September 22, 2023
Chinese Court Imposes Life Sentence on Uyghur Scholar
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September 13, 2023
Hong Kong Unleashes Courts against Children’s Sheep Fiction
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September 11, 2023
Chinese Activist Paying Terrible Price for Public Health Advocacy
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July 12, 2023
Remembering Chinese Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo
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July 9, 2023
Volkswagen Announces Factory Audit in Xinjiang
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November 14, 2022
G20 Leaders Should Publicly Challenge China’s Xi on Abuses
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November 2, 2022
Scholz Should Make His China Visit Count