China Human Rights Briefing Weekly July 20-26, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Uyghur Journalist Hailaite Niyazi Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison: On July 23, a court in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region sentenced journalist Hailaite Niyazi to 15 years in (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing Weekly July 14-19, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Authorities Order Closure of Over 100 Influential Blogs: A number of well-known and widely-read scholars, lawyers, and activists had their blogs shut down simultaneously by managers at major internet (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing July 6-12, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Netizens Gather in Support as Sichuan Democracy Activist Liu Xianbin is Formally Arrested for “Inciting Subversion of State Power:” On July 5, Sichuan democracy activist and human rights activist Liu (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing Weekly July 1-5, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Police Raid Home of Human Rights Defender Li Jinfang; Interrogate Her and Daughter: Hebei police raided the home of human rights defender Li Jinfang (李金芳) on July 1, confiscating (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing Weekly June 22-30, 2010 For download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Sichuan Democracy Activist Liu Xianbin Criminally Detained for “Inciting Subversion of State Power:” Having already served two jail terms for his activism, the most recent lasting nearly a decade, (read more…)
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Tan Zuoren’s Harsh Sentence Upheld by Sichuan High Court (Chinese Human Rights Defenders- June 9, 2010) The Sichuan Provincial High People’s Court announced this morning that it had upheld the judgment of activist and environmentalist Tan Zuoren (谭作人). Tan was convicted of “inciting subversion of state power” in February 2010 (read more…)
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Tiananmen Anniversary Marked by Harassment, Detentions, and Official Silence (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, June 3, 2010) On the eve of the 21st anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre, the Chinese government continues to refuse to openly and truthfully address the events of June 4, 1989, and persists in its efforts to (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing Weekly May 25-31, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Homeless Rights Activist Ni Yulan and Husband Harassed, Detained in Beijing: Between May 26 and 28, Beijing human rights activist Ni Yulan (倪玉兰) and her husband were harassed on (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing May 18-24, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Beijing Tax Officials Launch New Investigation into Aizhixing: Prominent Beijing-based HIV/AIDS NGO Aizhixing has once again been targeted for inspection by Beijing tax officials. On the morning of May 19, (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing Weekly May 11-17, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Beijing Writer and Activist Wang Debang Interrogated, Home Searched: Beijing police searched the home of Beijing-based writer and human rights activist Wang Debang (王德邦) on May 11, confiscating a (read more…)
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Crackdown on Civil Society Continues (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, May 13, 2010) On the afternoon of May 11, officers from the National Security Unit under the Beijing Public Security Bureau (PSB) took freelance writer and human rights activist Wang Debang (王德邦) from his home in southwest Beijing and interrogated him (read more…)
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