Submission to the Human Rights Committee (2022)

This report was submitted by the Macau Research Group to the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) for its review of the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) in Macau, China at the HRC’s 135th Session in May 2022.

The submission covered a wide range of civil and political rights issues including: the disqualification of election candidates, denial of the right to assembly for migrant workers, interference with press freedom, planned revisions to the national security law, mass surveillance, restrictions on freedom of expression, and discrimination against LGBT+ persons.

MRG’s convener Jason Chao also delivered an oral intervention at the formal NGO briefing on 4 July 2022, highlighting the disqualification of election candidates and restrictions on the right to peaceful assembly.