China - Retaliation continues at Jasic Technologies

The Chinese government continues to wrongfully use Articles 75, 290, 293 of the PRC Criminal Code to criminally arrest and detain, as well as impose residential surveillance on, labour activists and supporting groups at a designated place related to the labour dispute in Jasic Technologies, where four workers were sacked and detained by the public security for forming a grassroots trade union in 2018. Forty-eight workers and labour activists related to the dispute are believed to be under restriction by the authorities to enable independent verification of their status and whereabouts. More labour activists not directly involved in the Jasic dispute were believed to have been arrested for their labour activism.