CHRD denounces the Chinese government’s politically-motivated punishment of human rights lawyer Xia Lin, who was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment on trumped-up charges on September 22.
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Guangdong police violently put down months-long protests in Wukan Village, injuring many villagers and detaining at least a dozen. Elsewhere, “709 Crackdown” activist Yin Xu’an was tried behind closed doors by a Hubei court.
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CHRD has documented dozens of cases of deprived liberty of activists and petitioners as part of the Chinese government’s “stability maintenance” measures before the G20 Summit of world leaders opening this Sunday in Hangzhou.
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Since President Xi Jinping took power, Chinese authorities have stepped up the practice of forcibly disappearing human rights lawyers and other rights defenders. On the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearance, CHRD urges the government to end the use of enforced disappearance to persecute those they want to (read more...)
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Foreign heads of state at the G20 Summit in Hangzhou in September can advance a goal of building economic cooperation by raising human rights concerns with Chinese leaders, just as China’s government is perpetuating the worst human rights crackdown in the country since 1989.
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Last week’s televised “confessions” and swift convictions of human rights lawyers and activists for “subversion” have dashed any hope for rule of law reforms under Xi Jinping’s reign. Chinese authorities’ handling of the lawyers and activists rounded up since last July have broken numerous Chinese legal provisions and international human (read more...)
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