04
September 2025
Past Event
Freeing China’s Political Prisoners

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Inquiries: tmagnuson@hudson.org.

Freeing China’s Political Prisoners

Past Event
Hudson Institute
September 04, 2025
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Police patrol outside the West Kowloon court before Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai arrives for his national security trial in Hong Kong on August 18, 2025. (Getty Images)
04
September 2025
Past Event

Event will also air live on this page.

 

 

Inquiries: tmagnuson@hudson.org.

Speakers:
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Sarah Makin

Principal, Makin Strategies

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Corey Jackson

Founder and President, Luke Alliance

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Frances Hui

Policy and Advocacy Coordinator, Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation

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Jewher Ilham

Author and Human Rights Advocate

Moderator:
Olivia Enos
Olivia Enos

Senior Fellow

 

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Given the scope and scale of the political prisoner crisis across China, the United States needs to do more to secure political prisoners’ release. The Chinese Communist Party holds at least 1.8 million Uyghurs in political prison camps and nearly 1,000 political prisoners in Hong Kong. In addition, the CCP extrajudicially detains many Tibetans, Christians (including pastors), and political dissidents. This is largely because the CCP sees political prisoners as an essential method of quashing dissent and retaining its power.

With that in mind, the United States should have equally robust mechanisms for setting political prisoners free. Congress has a substantial apparatus for securing political prisoners’ release. But the executive branch pursues political prisoner release in a more ad hoc manner. A new office of political prisoner advocacy in the executive branch, with a special envoy of ambassador rank, could bolster existing US efforts to free political prisoners.

Join Hudson for a discussion on the situation facing political prisoners across China, what the US can do to advance their cause, and potential reforms to Washington’s political prisoner advocacy framework.

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