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hrw.org

Mixed

Results vary across hrw.org: of 25 URLs tested, 19 are blocked and 6 are disrupted some of the time. The site itself, https://hrw.org, is blocked. The Great Firewall silently drops its packets so requests time out, breaks its TLS handshake and resets the connection. 1,008 tests have been run under this domain since 2011-03-25, the most recent on 2026-08-16.

Timeout / silent drop 19 TLS handshake failure 8 Connection reset 7 DNS poisoning 3 Empty response 1
25URLs tested
19blocked
1,008tests all-time
2011first tested
4 d agolast tested

The site itself

http://hrw.orgas of 2026Blockedhttps://hrw.orgBlockedhttp://www.hrw.orgas of 2026Blockedhttps://www.hrw.orgas of 2026Blocked

Pages and subdomains (21)

http://www.hrw.org/zh-hansas of 2026Blockedhttps://www.hrw.org/zh-hansas of 2026Intermittenthttps://www.hrw.org/zh-hantBlockedhttps://www.hrw.org/asia/taiwanBlockedhttp://www.hrw.org/topic/tortureas of 2026Intermittenthttp://www.hrw.org/node/11259/section/19Blockedhttp://www.hrw.org/zh-hans/news/2012/05/19as of 2026Blockedhttp://www.hrw.org/en/node/62409/section/1Blockedhttps://www.hrw.org/zh-hans/news/2019/02/20/327763Intermittenthttps://www.hrw.org/zh-hans/news/2020/11/27/377161as of 2026Blockedhttp://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/wr2014_web_0.pdfas of 2026Intermittenthttps://www.hrw.org/reports/2002/china02/china0802-11.htmas of 2026Blockedhttps://www.hrw.org/world-report/2020/country-chapters/globalas of 2026Blockedhttps://www.hrw.org/zh-hans/world-report/2025/country-chapters/chinaas of 2026Blockedhttps://www.hrw.org/zh-hans/news/2017/06/26/305798?platform=hootsuiteas of 2026Intermittenthttp://www.hrw.org/news/2013/05/14/china-end-violence-against-sex-workersas of 2026Blockedhttps://www.hrw.org/ja/news/2025/06/03/china-address-tiananmen-massacre-36-years-onas of 2026Intermittenthttps://www.hrw.org/news/2015/03/24/dispatches-china-thumbs-its-nose-women-activistsas of 2026Blockedhttps://www.hrw.org/news/2017/03/29/china-major-tibetan-buddhist-institution-faces-further-demolitionsas of 2026Blockedhttps://www.hrw.org/news/2019/02/20/how-chinas-censorship-machine-crosses-borders-and-western-politicsas of 2026Blockedhttp://www.hrw.org/news/2014/05/29/china-address-enduring-legacy-tiananmen-massacre?_ga=1.65608493.2099212826.1379960165as of 2026Blocked

About hrw.org and the Great Firewall

Is hrw.org blocked in mainland China?

Results vary across hrw.org: of 25 URLs tested, 19 are blocked and 6 are disrupted some of the time. The site itself, https://hrw.org, is blocked. The Great Firewall silently drops its packets so requests time out, breaks its TLS handshake and resets the connection. 1,008 tests have been run under this domain since 2011-03-25, the most recent on 2026-08-16.

How can I reach hrw.org from mainland China?

A VPN or another circumvention tool routes the request outside mainland China, past the filtering that blocks hrw.org. GreatFire runs GreatFire VPN; the Analyzer also tests the domains of many VPN and proxy providers, so you can check whether one is reachable before relying on it.

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